don_eros
June 20th, 2010, 12:08 PM
Hi everyone,
I made a *HUGE* mistake while reorganizing the partitions on my HD.
I wanted to extend a NTFS partition to the left by about a hundred MB using GParted (I had formatted the Windows 7 partition and filled it with data, but I had forgotten the partition Windows 7 puts at the beginning of the disk and wanted to remove it and use the space).
I assumed GParted would just expand the partition and leave a blank space at the beginning, but when I realized it was going to move *all the data* on the disk to the left I tried to stop it (since it was still performing the "read-only" test I thought it was safe).
I cunningly ignored the warning that said that major data corruption might occur if I stopped the process (I assumed it was just a warning for noobs, and since I'm obviously such a big expert I could safely ignore it).
Now Gparted says "$MFT has invalid magic. ntfs_mft_load(): Failed" and that I should run chkdsk /f on Windows, but Windows refuses to run chkdsk on the unit because it can't mount the partition.
Is there a way of fixing this? Where do I start?
Thanks,
DE
I made a *HUGE* mistake while reorganizing the partitions on my HD.
I wanted to extend a NTFS partition to the left by about a hundred MB using GParted (I had formatted the Windows 7 partition and filled it with data, but I had forgotten the partition Windows 7 puts at the beginning of the disk and wanted to remove it and use the space).
I assumed GParted would just expand the partition and leave a blank space at the beginning, but when I realized it was going to move *all the data* on the disk to the left I tried to stop it (since it was still performing the "read-only" test I thought it was safe).
I cunningly ignored the warning that said that major data corruption might occur if I stopped the process (I assumed it was just a warning for noobs, and since I'm obviously such a big expert I could safely ignore it).
Now Gparted says "$MFT has invalid magic. ntfs_mft_load(): Failed" and that I should run chkdsk /f on Windows, but Windows refuses to run chkdsk on the unit because it can't mount the partition.
Is there a way of fixing this? Where do I start?
Thanks,
DE