H
Ham Pastrami
I have been using Acronis Disk Director to manage my partitions and, until
now, it has worked pretty well. Today, however, I tried an operation that
seems to have hosed one of my partitions, though I believe the data is still
intact. These are all NTFS.
Before, I had two partitions
C: Primary, Active
D: Extended/Logical
I then ran a resize and create operation so that I would end up with
C: no change
D: shrink partition, leaving room at the end
E: new primary partition created from D's space
However, the actual result was that I got
C: no change
D: reports original size, 0 bytes free, unreadable
If I try to chkdsk, I get the error in the subject line. Acronis reports the
"file record" which I assume to mean some file table as 1kb which doesn't
sound right. I'm currently running a GetDataBack scan on the drive and it is
finding files and directories so I'm optimistic that most of the data is
still intact, but I wonder if it's possible to simply rebuild the NTFS
structure on-disk and not have to go through the hoop of copying the data to
another drive.
now, it has worked pretty well. Today, however, I tried an operation that
seems to have hosed one of my partitions, though I believe the data is still
intact. These are all NTFS.
Before, I had two partitions
C: Primary, Active
D: Extended/Logical
I then ran a resize and create operation so that I would end up with
C: no change
D: shrink partition, leaving room at the end
E: new primary partition created from D's space
However, the actual result was that I got
C: no change
D: reports original size, 0 bytes free, unreadable
If I try to chkdsk, I get the error in the subject line. Acronis reports the
"file record" which I assume to mean some file table as 1kb which doesn't
sound right. I'm currently running a GetDataBack scan on the drive and it is
finding files and directories so I'm optimistic that most of the data is
still intact, but I wonder if it's possible to simply rebuild the NTFS
structure on-disk and not have to go through the hoop of copying the data to
another drive.