[d-rick]

has anyone seen this type of behavior from the mandrake partition utility?

i installed mandrake 9 on an 80 gb drive that had 60 gb of ntfs data, and shrunk the ntfs part from 80 to 60 gb.

i then installed mandrake, but now am unable to see files on the ntfs partition. i get an io error whenever i try and read certain files.

from xp, the partition shows up as raw (empty), so i can't touch it from there.

since the drive is mounted on linux, i can not run chkdsk or anything on it.

anyone have a workaround?

i tried booting to partition magic, but that didn't work either..

[lynch]

Are you saying you can boot to either OS but cant see the files on XP from Linux or the files on Linux from XP?
You wont see the Linux files from XP.
You should be able to see the XP files from Linux.It's probably setup so only root can see them.If root can see them you need to add the umask=007 option to the line in /etc/fstab that defines your windows(XP) partition.
HTH
lynch

[snowdog]

What I got out of it is that by shrinking the Windows partition, d-rick might have shrank it a hair to much and corrupted the whole partition. That would explain the IO error from Mandrake. Then he says from XP the partition shows up empty. XP won't see anything but FAT and NTFS partitions. Did XP boot?? Or was he trying to write to the Windows NTFS partition from Mandrake?? That would give errors. I'm confused (probably by my own sleight of hand :-).

[d-rick]

sorry guys

here is what i did..

originally had an 80 gb drive - NTFS only 50 GB used, 30 GB empty

installed mandrake 9, shrunk the part to 60 gb.

now i can read about 75-90 % of the data but the remaining 10-25 % is "corrupted"..

partition magics utility won't "fix" it, i think i need run chkdsk on it..

BUT it isn't recognized in xp as a formatted drive, but rather as a raw drive. in linux i can see most of the stuff, and am in the process of moving it off to another drive.

i just want to know if there is a way to salvage the "corrupted" data

[snowdog]

I know XP hates change. To the point of needing a reinstall and a call to MS to get it registered again. d-rick, you might be buggered on this one. Don't blame Linux for this. Mandrake can still read most of the data. XP sounds like it is puking on it. Before you reinstall (if you have too) go into Mandrake Control Center and create a boot disk. This way if you do have to reinstall Windows you will have a way to get back into Mandrake. From Mandrake you can get lilo or grub setup properly again. Any Windows install will overwrite the MBR, so that's why Windows is always put on first. I DO NOT have all the answers. Others here could very well have a better way. I hate XP. I wasted 5 days of my life on it. Backup what you can. Good luck bud.

[lynch]

It's not recognized in XP because XP cant recognize a Linux native formatted partition:it's best guess is raw because it's not free space.
I would try chkdisk first to see if that will help.You could try a system restore if you have any restore points saved.If not,snowdog's suggestion would be the next step.
As soon as you get XP going again to your liking,make a restore point or do a Ghost or DriveImage backup.
BTW,welcome to TSG,snowdog.
lynch

[d-rick]

i know i'm being dense here, but how am i supposed to run a chkdsk against the drive when xp doesn't recgnize it?

for that matter, xp doesn't give it a drive letter at all!!

[snowdog]

Does XP boot? Or is XP saying there is no formatted drive when you put the XP disk in the cdrom drive? If XP boots, then try a System Restore. System Restore might blow out your linux partition, because XP was installed on an 80gig partition, and it will probably want it back (not to sure about that). If XP dosen't boot, go into Mandrake, pull off all you can from the Windows partition and reinstall XP. Remember to make the Mandrake boot disk first! You can have all your XP data backed up there and then find that you have no way to boot to Mandrake (hard lesson learned on my part :-) ).
If you do reinstall XP make the rescue disk. I looked online for one to download, but they seem to be system specific. An XP rescue disk will also return your hard drive to original install settings (ie. you lose EVERYTHING, all your personal data, etc). And corrupted data is just that, corrupted. Not much chance of getting it back. I'm thinking this constitutes a "nightmare".

Thx for the welcome lynch!

snowdog

[lynch]

Hmm....never occured to me that doing a restore would bring back the original partition size.Thanks for the heads up
I misunderstood you,d-rick.Mandrake 9.1 was probably formatted as ext3,a journaling filesystem which basically fixes itself.The Linux equivalent to chkdisk is fsck but it shouldnt be needed.
If you know what make hard drive you have you can download thier drive utilities and run them from a floppy.That might help.
lynch