How to recover ntfs partition

Good going. Good that you were able to correct the sector count with Linux.Good that you were able to recover some data also. But tell us whether the 1GB limitation kicked in. How many GBs of data were you able to recover?

You may rerun Partition Recovery Wizard again and make sure that the correct partition table is written after the sector count correction..

Regarding Bootice MBR writing, initially your hard disk will show as "Unknown MBR".( This actually is the factory condition.) After you write the Windows MBR, close bootice and rerun Bootice..Now it should show as Windows MBR. You can easily make out the difference by viewing sector 0 before and after that operation.

As long as Windows shows your drive as RAW, you may not be able to run Checkdisk - that is as far as I know.

Kaktussoft said:

You better do #38 first.

Sure, that post wasnt there when I clicked on "Reply"

jumanji said:

Good going. Good that you were able to correct the sector count with Linux.Good that you were able to recover some data also. But tell us whether the 1GB limitation kicked in. How many GBs of data were you able to recover?

You may rerun Partition Recovery Wizard again and make sure that the correct partition table is written after the sector count correction..

Regarding Bootice MBR writing, initially your hard disk will show as "Unknown MBR".( This actually is the factory condition.) After you write the Windows MBR, close bootice and rerun Bootice..Now it should show as Windows MBR. You can easily make out the difference by viewing sector 0 before and after that operation.

Yes, after I had run Bootice it showed "Windows NT 5.x MBR" and 6.x respectively. But the drive was still inaccessible so I wrote the backup to the drive.

Let us hope that checkdisk will run.:)

It is definitely not a hardware problem. And that is why I have been wondering why you have been and are insisting on a surface test. Anything that I have missed?:)

Surface test did not find any errors.

Checkdisk found some errors including the damaged MFT and repaired it in the first run, second run did not found anything else.

AND drive is mounting You guys are great! Thanks a lot for your help!


I got one question left: I have another problem with another drive (I know, I'm stupid, but this is not my year yet). But that one contains linux partitions as well. Link to forum with my problem description. If you know a little bit about unix as well and could help me with that or can name me a person or forum that can, I would love you til the end of my life



Checkdisk output of first run:

Code:

The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is My Book.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
  50960 file records processed.
File verification completed.
  92 large file records processed.
  0 bad file records processed.
  0 EA records processed.
  0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
42 percent complete. (29268 of 62422 index entries processed)
Deleted invalid filename README!!!!!!!!FIRST!"!!!!!!!! (29525) in directory 1408
3.
File 29525 has been orphaned since all its filenames were invalid
Windows will recover the file in the orphan recovery phase.
Correcting minor file name errors in file 29525.
68 percent complete. (53073 of 62422 index entries processed)
Deleting index entry README!!!!!!!!FIRST!"!!!!!!!! in index $I30 of file 14083.
  62422 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is scanning unindexed files for reconnect to their original directory.
  1 unindexed files scanned.
CHKDSK is recovering remaining unindexed files.
  1 unindexed files recovered.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
  50960 file SDs/SIDs processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  5732 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  1212072 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Correcting errors in the Master File Table (MFT) mirror.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

 976762551 KB total disk space.
 381482208 KB in 30521 files.
     16356 KB in 5734 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    148995 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 595114992 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 244190637 total allocation units on disk.
 148778748 allocation units available on disk.