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by **dejadj..** » Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:00:00

I'm afraid I wrecked my linux + NT dual boot system!

Here is my setup:

/dev/sda1 2 gigs NT 4.0 (FAT)
/dev/sda2 1 gig NTFS
/dev/sda3 linux (ext2)

Here's what I did:
I tried out the program to read the NTFS from linux,
and I typed:
mkntfs /dev/sda1
(which at the very least should have been /dev/sda2, the NTFS part.
I wish to read), and now I can't boot.
Simply stated: is my NT FAT partition completely trashed now?
Any way to recover?
TIA
dejadjcyr

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by **Justin Pelletie** » Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:00:00

> I'm afraid I wrecked my linux + NT dual boot system!

> Here is my setup:

> /dev/sda1 2 gigs NT 4.0 (FAT)
> /dev/sda2 1 gig NTFS
> /dev/sda3 linux (ext2)

> Here's what I did:
> I tried out the program to read the NTFS from linux,
> and I typed:
> mkntfs /dev/sda1
> (which at the very least should have been /dev/sda2, the NTFS part.
> I wish to read), and now I can't boot.
> Simply stated: is my NT FAT partition completely trashed now?

Unfortunately for you, you just formatted /dev/sda1 so everything on it
is lost.

Quote:> Any way to recover?

I don't think so...

Quote:> TIA
> dejadjcyr

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by **Marc Mut** » Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:00:00

> > Here's what I did:
> > I tried out the program to read the NTFS from linux,
> > and I typed:
> > mkntfs /dev/sda1
> > (which at the very least should have been /dev/sda2, the NTFS part.
> > I wish to read), and now I can't boot.
> > Simply stated: is my NT FAT partition completely trashed now?

> Unfortunately for you, you just formatted /dev/sda1 so everything on it
> is lost.

> > Any way to recover?

> I don't think so...

I don't too, but if you have someone who is a wizard for NTFS, then
preserve the current state of your partition by issueing the following
in linux (as root):
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=<dest> bs=512
or
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=512 | gzip | dd of=<dest> bs=512
for compressed image.
That will save an image of the corrupted partition to <dest>, which
should be a device or file with enough free space. The reason that I
think that not all is lost is, that it is most likely that mkntfs has
not written to every single sector. So, depending on the robustness of
NTFS, it may be possible to recover important data (e.g. with a
hex-editor).

Marc

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Help!! NT + linux partition mkfs problem!!!

Help!! NT + linux partition mkfs problem!!!

Help!! NT + linux partition mkfs problem!!!

Help!! NT + linux partition mkfs problem!!!