Ntfs partition was changed to swap (Solved)

kabbalah · 2015-07-07 18:17:45

Hi, create a swap file according to the wiki arch, then delete it according to the wiki arch and now the partition I had with ntfs where I have all my work is a swap and not know as access this without deleting nothing, all files are important work of more than six years, not like coming back this to ntfs, I need urgent help.

[root@arch julio]# fdisk -l
Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Final Sectores Tamaño Id Tipo
/dev/sda1 2048 61442047 61440000 29,3G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 61442048 233293823 171851776 82G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 233293824 310362111 77068288 36,8G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 310362112 312580095 2217984 1,1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

#cfdisk
Disco: /dev/sda
Tamaño: 149,1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectores
Etiqueta: dos, identificador: 0x00002730

Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Final Sectores Tamaño Id Tipo
>> /dev/sda1 2048 61442047 61440000 29,3G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 61442048 233293823 171851776 82G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 233293824 310362111 77068288 36,8G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 310362112 312580095 2217984 1,1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

The Disks gnome utility recognizes the partition / dev / sda2 as swap.

You see I can not use this aid because they are disabled. BBcode....

Nemo does not recognize the partition / dev / sda2 which is what I need access

Need urgent support, I do not want to do anything that endangers the information within this partition.

Thaks

Last edited by kabbalah (2015-07-08 23:57:01)

respiranto · 2015-07-07 18:28:00

Are you talking of /dev/sda4? It's only 1.1 GiB in size - pretty small for all your work of 5 years.
Or do the '>' signs indicate that /dev/sda1 is the relevant partition?
In the latter case, simply try to mount it from command line, as it is still formatted as NTFS according to (c)fdisk.

For the future you should probably think about creating a backup.

ewaller · 2015-07-07 18:28:34

Stop.
What is the output of cat /proc/swaps ?

kabbalah · 2015-07-07 18:36:31

[root@arch julio]# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda4 partition 1108988 0 -1

The idea is: I have the partition / dev / sda2 as backup, there I have all the files of my work, it is formatted with NTFS, but now I not have access to this even when it appears as ntfs, Disks appears as swap, and nemo not recognizes it.

ewaller · 2015-07-07 18:41:24

I think your data are safe on /dev/sda2. I know nothing of "Nemo", so let us ignore that for right now.
What is the output of mount ?

kabbalah · 2015-07-07 18:46:23

[root@arch julio]# mkdir /media
mkdir: no se puede crear el directorio «/media»: El fichero ya existe
[root@arch julio]# mkdir /media/windows
[root@arch julio]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /media/windows
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Argumento inválido
The device '/dev/sda2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

As you can see: The partition /dev/sda2 can not be mounted

What happened is that the name of the NTFS partition changed to swap, I not know how this happened.

Last edited by kabbalah (2015-07-07 18:46:49)

ewaller · 2015-07-07 19:02:16

I would now disconnect the drive and make a sector by sector copy of it.
You will need to find some tools to try to recover NTFS file systems. Arch Linux is not the answer here.
Try to recover files from the copy, not the original.
Good Luck, and consider how it is that you do not have back up copies of your files and why you are using an undocumented file system for those files.

Awebb · 2015-07-07 19:29:35

ewaller wrote:

You will need to find some tools to try to recover NTFS file systems. Arch Linux is not the answer here.

That is not entirely true

Since then, ntfsprogs seem to have merged with the ntfs-3g package.

EDIT: Have a look at testdisk/photorec as well.

Last edited by Awebb (2015-07-07 19:30:16)

mandog · 2015-07-08 00:11:23

To me it seems that you have a corrupted ntfs file system usually coursed by improper shut-down and easily remedied by using windows tools, or xp in Hirons boot disk, scan for errors and scan for bad sectors then reboot twice into windows is the usual fix.

kabbalah · 2015-07-08 23:56:29

There was no other choice but to format and retrieve files with recuva in windows as much as I could

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Ntfs partition was changed to swap (Solved)

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