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Angelfood MacSpade
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Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:11 pm Post subject:
Why did XP decide my partition has NO file system? |
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My ordeal started with a forced shutdown of XP (I have to do this on
occasion). CHKDSK started up to check my drive N: (the only partition
in a 180GB WD drive), finished quickly and found no errors. However
now XP (Disk Management) thinks my N: drive is empty and has NO file
system. It was formatted as NTFS and was (and is) about 50% full.
The really fascinating thing is that all my disk utilities like
PartitionMagic 8 and Active Partition Recovery do not see any errors
whatsoever - and see the file system as NTFS.
I can use an undelete utility to recover my data across my network,
format the drive and restore everything but it will take the entire
day. But is there something I can do within XP to convince it that the
drive has an NTFS file system??
One implicating factor might be that I recently changed this partition
to 64K file clusters from 4K (it's used primarily for video storage).
Although everything seemed fine for a day, could this file cluster
change have messed up XP somehow? |
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Angelfood MacSpade
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Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:05 am Post subject:
Re: Why did XP decide my partition has NO file system? |
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It now looks like my hard drive is no longer useable. I have
reformatted in Disk Management - first using the quick format option.
All appeared fine until I rebooted and then once again XP decided the
drive had no file system. I then did a full format, copied my data
back, rebooted once and all looked fine. But after a 2nd reboot, the
drive is again without a file system. What a huge PITA.
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:11:19 GMT, Angelfood MacSpade
<angelfood_macspade@hotmailNOSPAM.com> wrote:
| Quote: | My ordeal started with a forced shutdown of XP (I have to do this on
occasion). CHKDSK started up to check my drive N: (the only partition
in a 180GB WD drive), finished quickly and found no errors. However
now XP (Disk Management) thinks my N: drive is empty and has NO file
system. It was formatted as NTFS and was (and is) about 50% full.
The really fascinating thing is that all my disk utilities like
PartitionMagic 8 and Active Partition Recovery do not see any errors
whatsoever - and see the file system as NTFS.
I can use an undelete utility to recover my data across my network,
format the drive and restore everything but it will take the entire
day. But is there something I can do within XP to convince it that the
drive has an NTFS file system??
One implicating factor might be that I recently changed this partition
to 64K file clusters from 4K (it's used primarily for video storage).
Although everything seemed fine for a day, could this file cluster
change have messed up XP somehow?
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kmzpub
Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 30
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Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:17 am Post subject:
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Greeting,
Seems like your partition was corrupted. I suppose you using Active@ partition recovery utility to restore it. I had a simmilar problem when one of my partitions was gone, and this tool really restored it completely.
http://www.partition-recovery.com/ |
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