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GG · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:26 am Post subject: Corrupt partition rescue.

So while changing the size of one of my partitions, my PC lost power. Now it appears as unformatted space. How might I go about recovering this?

I have a spare harddrive of greater capacity than the corrupt partition. I have Knoppix and Ubuntu. I have a CD drive.

Please, any insight Very Happy

SpikeSkull · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:47 pm Post subject:

You can use 'Partition Recovery' tool or its equivalent. I haven't used it myself, but it's worth to try though.
Hope that'd help. Wink

AhMunRa · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject:

You can also use SwissKnife.
http://www.compuapps.com/

kls85 · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:43 pm Post subject:

Just take that HDD to another computer as a slave drive. Your OS drive will detect that and run a chkdsk. When it's done, it will be back to normal.

No software is necessary.
Done it plenty of time and has a 99.9% success rate

GG · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:36 am Post subject:

Trying the other ones now.

Running chkdsk returns:
The type of file system is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.

AhMunRa · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject:

Sounds like you need to manually rebuild your partition table. You can use one of the tools mentioned earlier. Just make sure it can read and modify raw partitions.

GG · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:07 am Post subject:

OK, for those having the same problem, here is how I did it.

Download TestDisk, start up and select Analyze.
Once that is done select the partition that you lost access too. Press P while it is highlighted.

Now, you should have a list of all your files that were there before the incident (if you don't, they are not there).

Select a file you want, and press C. The first time you choose a directory, after that it copies to the same directory.

Took a couple of days to recover my entire thing onto a USB HDD...