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I will try to explain what I did as best as I can remember, hopefully someone
will help me.
I booted into INSERT linux, ran ntfsresize -i /dev/sda6 (my hard drive is SATA),
everything was fine, so I ran it with -n -s 11800M (around 150 MB above the
minimum file system size the -i option reported), everything was fine again,
so I ran it without -n.
Then I ran fdisk, deleted the old partition, created a new one at the same starting
block as the last one, +11800M as the ending block, then I changed the type
to NTFS. First I did it without actually writing the partition table, then for
real, only this time I forgot to change the partition type. So I booted again
into INSERT and changed it, but it didn't work. Windows didn't recognize it
(it booted, because windows is on another partition).
In my attempts to recover it I managed to lose other two partitions. I don't
exactly remember how, but the only two tools I've been using are fdisk and testdisk
(one of the things I tried was making the partition larger than the filesystem
- +11940M as the ending block) I then recovered all the partitions with testdisk.
They were found using the backup boot block, so I copied the backup over the
original.
But I still can't access them. Ntfsresize, ntfsinfo, ntfsfix and all those tools
tell me they've encountered an input/output error and that the filesystem was
corrupted. Chkdsk tells me "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable
problems".
Windows sees them, but thinks they're full.
To the best of my knowledge, I think there is something wrong with the MFT since
the partitions can be seen now, but no program can tell me how much space is
used, what files are there on the partition and such.
If I understood the ntfsresize FAQ correctly, if all I did was mess with the
partition table information, I should still somehow be able to fix things manually
(I don't have a backup of the partition table), so I'm still optimistic. This
is my current partiton table:
Disk /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 702 5638783+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 703 2320 12996585 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2322 10011 61769925 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2322 2443 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 2444 4089 13221456+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 4090 5775 13542760+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 5776 9987 33832852+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9 9988 10011 192748+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
The last three NTFS partitions are the ones that are corrupted, all others
work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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