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Hard disc repartitioning and recovery with Knoppix

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Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---TBH, I have not got a clue. Different filesystems... But I was expecting them to be slightly different somewhere and then you could replace the primary with the secondary (assuming they do exist on NTFS, which is probably a very stupid assumption), but that mustn't be it.
First of all, run:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
and make sure the output from that is alright (there's a hda1 partition of type NTFS or whatever). I think the NTFS module has to be loaded (or built inside the kernel itself) to get an error like that, but I'd just make sure it's there ('lsmod').
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The output is correct, both the file system and disc size are right.


--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Then make sure your using the right arguments to mount ('-t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt' (and '-o ro' for read-only if you like but it shouldn't matter)).
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I didn't, I just clicked on it in KDE and I've never had a problem mounting it with KDE before. I've just tried form the command line and I get exactly the same error message.


--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Can you still boot into Windows on that disk?
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No, the BIOS displays "IDE ERROR" when it attempts to boot Windows.


--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Well, I've seen that error message _alot_ before, and not yet has it been because of a bad superblock. But, the BIOS "IDE ERROR" is a bit fucked up tbh.
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Yes, it is weird how fdisk can see the partition table but it won't mount and the BIOS won't boot it.


--- Quote from: piratePenguin --- Check the IDE connections maybe, and I dunno if disconnecting unnecesary IDE drives would help (but I always tend to try that first for some odd reason).
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I haven't tried this, but I will have a go.

I don't have a very good feeling about this, I think the file system and possibly the hard disc might be fucked. If the checking the IDE connections doesn't work I'll install Windows on the hdb and see if scandisk will work.

KernelPanic:
It seriously seems like you just need to instruct Windows to read and/or restor the backup superblock.

This is easy with Linux, you should try this question somewhere else where someone actually knows half a shit about Windows filesystems. Try asking specifically about restoring the superblock.
Don't be screwing up your system trying to fix it :)

Have you managed to run chkdsk from Win Recovery Console or BartPE?

Aloone_Jonez:
I'll havwe a go when I get acess to a decent Internet connection so I can burn it.

Yes I think I'll go to a Windows forum for this one, I know I'm treading a fine line asking this question in this forum but I thought it'd be alright as I'm asking about data recovery rather than help with Windows.

Thank you all for your help, you lot've been great. :thumbup:

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