Re: Newbie help required: corrupt NTFS partition
From: Anthony W. Youngman (thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/24/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:15:32 +0000
In article <pan.2004.03.21.11.35.45.541650@n0spAm.zanadu.org.uk>, mic
<winterman@n0spAm.zanadu.org.uk> writes
>Hi all,
>
>'Scuse me being a newbie to Linux (finally took the plunge).. I now have a
>problem.
>
>I have a disk currently configured into 50% NTFS and 50% ext (or whatever
>the Suse 9 default is)..
>
>Unfortunately whilst playing with fedora I have lost the $MFT on the drive
>completely corrupting the NTFS partition, I cannot mount it under Suse at
>all.
>
>I have resigned myself to the fact that I have lost the NTFS and want to
>resize my Suse to use all of the drive.
Unless you try using whatever doze you have to do a recovery ...
It's not a 9x series so it shouldn't (famous last words) trash your
linux setup - anyway, SuSE can boot the "os on disk" from the CD ...
>
>Trying QTPart the NTFS is marked as Active and busy..
>
>What's the best way of doing this??
If you just want to make the ntfs partition into a linux partition (eg
for /home), use linux fdisk to change the partition type to ext2 (can't
remember whether it's 82 or 83), then use mke2fs to format the
partition. Then it's clean and ready to mount ... add it to /etc/fstab
>
>Any help greatfully recieved
>
>Mic
Cheers,
Wol
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