ntfs problem

[RSimpson]

hi folks,

xp version: pro

serious problem here
while attempting to add a new partition (dvd temp partition) with partition magic 7 to my system it stopped around 77% while resizing my main windows partition to make room and i was forced to make a cold restart, after which my system wouldn't boot into xp.

after searching the microsoft support site for the stop error code it gave me when i tried to boot up i concluded it was an ntfs problem and followed the troubleshooting guide on the site, i put the disk into another system running xp as a slave and checked the drive out as the system booted up.

as it checked the disk it "fixed" minor errors in the files, basically the entire file structure is still there but is out of sync with the data on the disk, some files are fine, the rest either contain data from other files or won't open/run.

this is also the case with my documents disk (which i attempted to add the dvd temp partition first) so a lot of the files are in the same boat as the files on the windows disk.

does anybody know of any utility i can use to analyse the disks and attempt to restore my system and documents?

any help would be greatly appreciated.


cheers,
Robert

[kal_el]

Did you try to view your boot.ini file? Possible errors in there also you can try to do a system restore I personally do not think it is a NTFS issue than just say your boot files are corrupted I would look into your boot file first. There is another way to check the filesystem get into recovery console their is alot of great utilities in there that could help you out.


http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654

Please post back with more information.

[Grendel]

You are not in a good state RSimpson.

If you could not read the data when the drive was slaved, you will likely need a data recovery program.

I have used http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/
with some success in the past.

You could try a CHKDSK /R in Recovery Console, it MIGHT get you some more files recovered, but it is a big maybe.

When the file system is messed with, a la Partiton Magic, if ANYTHING goes wrong there is usually nothing that can be done.

That is why Partiton Magic STRONLGLY recommends BACKING UP your data before going through with the re-partitioning.