Fixing Corrupt NTFS Partition

[benb]

Hi,

This isn't strictly a Windows XP problem, however I was hoping someone here
might have some information or point me in a better direction.
I have a consultant who 'apparently' installed some Windows updates, when he
rebooted, he found his external USB Maxtor hard disk, that he uses for
backups, wasn't showing up in 'My Computer'. I've had a look at it today, on
my laptop, and it shows up in 'Computer Management > Disk Management' but as
'Unallocated' with no partition configured, I've run 'Ontrack Easy Recovery'
across it, and it sees all the files are still there, (found something like
6,000), however it looks like the partition is corrupt (It was NTFS, and
Ontrack scans and finds an NTFS partition). I don't think there is a way to
repair the partition with 'Ontrack Easy Recovery', so I was wondering if
anyone here knows of a way or a bit of software that I can use to repair the
partition?

Many thanks

Ben

 

[DatabaseBen]

yeh, i had a corrupted partition and it esculated into the others. I went
and purchased the Acronis Disk Director Suite. I hesitated because I didn't
want to spend anymore money. But after I bought it, I found it to be well
worth it.

It works from the desktop and it can resize partitions, view hidden ones and
view the data on unaccessiable ntfs partitions. It also fixes the lost
partitions or at the very least, you can access the lost files, move into
another place and reformat the bad partition or rebuild the file table.

I think in your case, since the files can been seen, its probably the
file/partition table that got corrupted and simply needs to be rebuilt. But
this is only an idea that can probably help you do further research as
well.... Then there is the issue with USB accesiable harddrives that I'm an
unfamiliar with at this time. But I have been cotemplating getting one for a
back up drive as well.....

I think that this software can help you with the particular problem. But on
the chance that it cannot, it will come in real handy anyways.......

 

[Vincent Xu [MSFT]]

Hi,

I'm sorry to hear that the data storage's file partition is corrupt. In my
opinion, I'd like to suggest you contact profesional data recovery company
if the data is important.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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