partition headaches

[Jamon Camisso]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:53:54PM -0400, jim ruxton wrote:
>> Thank you everyone for the helping out with this. Lennart had originally
>> asked what I was doing with Partition Magic when things went astray. I
>> was shrinking my Windows partition so I could create another partition
>> that was FAT32 for sharing between Windows and Linux. I never got to the
>> stage of making the FAT32 partition. It was during resizing that PM
>> crashed after which I could no longer boot windows. With respect to the
>> partition order. It has been this way for a long time and booted
>> successfully via GRUB into either Windows or Linux. So I don't think I
>> need to change this but I do have to do something to get Windows back.
>> Mel, I used GNUparted a few days ago to convert an NTFS portable drive
>> to FAT32 and it worked well. So what should I try if the partition order
>> doesn't seem to be the culprit? Thanks again for the help.
> 
> Can partition magic resume the operation it was on?  I don't actually
> know what happens if partition magic crashes (I have never seen it
> happen).
> 
> Can you recover the filesystem by running chkdsk from the windows
> recovery console (from booting the install cd and hitting F6 or
> something)?  I have recovered corrupt NTFS systems that wouldn't boot
> with that method in the past.

Testdisk is an appropriate tool in this case I think:
GPL, and it's saved my drives many a time when testing a new distro.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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