Hey everyone - have an interesting problem a friend has brought to me but I'm not sure how to proceed...
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Setup:
Friend has a 1.5Tb SATA storage hard disk with (originally) a 1.5Tb NTFS partition on, plugged internally into SATA channel 1. Boots Windows XP off another SATA disk in channel 2.
Event:
He plugs in a blank 80Gb PATA hard disk into PATA channel 0 as master and boots the system up Suddenly the data on the 1.5Tb is unreadable and only reports that his partition is 80Gb!
Unplugged the drive and gives it to me. I clone the entire drive onto a 2Tb SATA drive to examine. Run the backup in Gparted on Linux which reports the 80Gb partition. It's even reporting the correct name for the partition - it would seem that the partition was resized through an error. Shows the remaining 1.75Tb space as unallocated.
I then run "Device --> Attempt Data Rescue". The program chugs along for half a day and reports at the end that it can't see any other partitions.
Information in Gparted for /dev/sda1 is as follows:
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Filesystem: ntfs
Size: 74.53 GiB
Path: /dev/sda1
Status: Unmounted.
First Sector: 63
Last sector: 156299375
Total Sectors: 156299313
WARNING:
$MFT LCN (786432) or $MFTMirr LCN (183142000) is greater than the number of clusters (19537414).
Failed to mount 'dev/sda1': Invalid argument.
The device 'dev/sda1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
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ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Failed to parse ntfs bootsector: Invalid argument.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument.
ERROR(22)
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Unable to read the contents of this ntfs filesystem!
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Thoughts? Can i simply change the size of the partition while preserving everything else?
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Setup:
Friend has a 1.5Tb SATA storage hard disk with (originally) a 1.5Tb NTFS partition on, plugged internally into SATA channel 1. Boots Windows XP off another SATA disk in channel 2.
Event:
He plugs in a blank 80Gb PATA hard disk into PATA channel 0 as master and boots the system up Suddenly the data on the 1.5Tb is unreadable and only reports that his partition is 80Gb!
Unplugged the drive and gives it to me. I clone the entire drive onto a 2Tb SATA drive to examine. Run the backup in Gparted on Linux which reports the 80Gb partition. It's even reporting the correct name for the partition - it would seem that the partition was resized through an error. Shows the remaining 1.75Tb space as unallocated.
I then run "Device --> Attempt Data Rescue". The program chugs along for half a day and reports at the end that it can't see any other partitions.
Information in Gparted for /dev/sda1 is as follows:
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Filesystem: ntfs
Size: 74.53 GiB
Path: /dev/sda1
Status: Unmounted.
First Sector: 63
Last sector: 156299375
Total Sectors: 156299313
WARNING:
$MFT LCN (786432) or $MFTMirr LCN (183142000) is greater than the number of clusters (19537414).
Failed to mount 'dev/sda1': Invalid argument.
The device 'dev/sda1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
..
..
ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Failed to parse ntfs bootsector: Invalid argument.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument.
ERROR(22)
.
.
Unable to read the contents of this ntfs filesystem!
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Thoughts? Can i simply change the size of the partition while preserving everything else?
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