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l3dx

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Registered: 2010-07-23

Posts: 12

Restore NTFS partition corrupted by ms-sys

Hi!

I just recently decided to once again try out arch linux. Unfortunately I managed to screw up my windows partition. First I got some boot sector errors, but now I think I corrupted the partition.

What I tried to do was restoring the boot sector by using ms-sys. Now I suspect that I did something completely wrong, as the partition is not even mountable from arch. Does anyone know a way of restoring the partition? At least so that I could pull out some of my data...this isn't actually an emergency, 'cause it is a pretty fresh installation of both arch/win7, but if it's possible I would like to have a look what's there, and also learn how to recover the partition.

/l3dx

skodabenz

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From: Tamilnadu, India

Registered: 2010-04-11

Posts: 382

Re: Restore NTFS partition corrupted by ms-sys

Try testdisk. Usually ntfs has a backup bootsector which you can try to restore. Or use photorec for file recovery.

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

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l3dx

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Registered: 2010-07-23

Posts: 12

Re: Restore NTFS partition corrupted by ms-sys

Try testdisk. Usually ntfs has a backup bootsector which you can try to restore. Or use photorec for file recovery.

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

Thanks, but I managed to get it working without it!

1. I used a win7 install cd to restore the partition (using the auto-fix option)

2. menu.lst was pointing to the win7 "main" partition. not the "system reserved" partition