On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:17:33AM +0800, Andre M. V. wrote (wyy sez): > 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. > no have not tried that yet. but, maybe i could since NTFS support is kinda stable for read-only diba? how is write support. > You can then copy your data to a spare HDD/partition. > Partition copy is very good. Get it at Morpheus! > blink... blink ;) > hehehe. there is a free GPLed partition copy tool though but i forgot what is was. i found it in google.
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