On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > i have a machine here that has Win2k installed. after installing linux (i was > not the one), the Win2k NTFS partitions could not seen anymore. they are > still properly partitions as can be seen with parted and fdisk. however, > win2k refuses to see them as NTFS partitions. it sees one as FAT and another > as nothing. > > i think it is just that the partition headers were rewritten? by linux? > anyway, the machine has important data on the NTFS partition but Win2K > refuses to see it. fdisk will show it as SFS which i changed to NTFS to > get one drive working. however, the other drive is still not detected. the > only difference with the fixed and busted drive is that the one not fixed > lives on an extended partition. > > can anybody point to me somethings i could execute to restore the NTFS > partitions? i am posting this in the PLUG list apparently because linux could > have causes the problem in the first place. > > things i have tried out are fdisk, parted and testdisk to fix the partition > type but still NTFS does not see them. i do not have a copy of partition magic > around (have to find one).
Have you tried accessing the NTFS partition via Linux mount? assuming you have the NTFS driver in the Linux kernel. I can do that in my notebook dual booting Debian/Win2k. You can then copy your data to a spare HDD/partition. Partition copy is very good. Get it at Morpheus! blink... blink ;) regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.com Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
