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I have three large partitions on my hard drive. I was using one FAT32
partition as a legacy MS WinME OS with many applications and many years of
work. A second was an NTFS WinXP partition that I used more frequently. The
nice thing about partitions is that it gives you a degree of protection from
the devastation of viruses. I was using either the WinXP multiboot loader or
Partition Magic's multiboot program. I also have a small (78 MB) DOS
partition for DOS Partition Magic.
Recently the NTFS WinXP partition file system has become corrupted and
inconsistent. I've been unable to boot WinXP from that partition. Partition
Magic can see the partition but it tells me the partition has errors. Only
WinXP can fix the file system. I've installed a new version of WinXP on my
spare partition in a valiant effort to recovery some important legal
documents that reside on that partition. During installation of new WinXP
from CD the install program told me that the lost partition was an OS/2 file
system; it could identify it as NTFS because it was corrupted. Under my new
WinXP, the utility 'Disk Management' can see the lost partition file system,
it says the file system's healthy NTFS, but otherwise unknown and with no
drive letter. Using 'Command Prompt', I am see a partition for which I am
told 'The device is not ready'. Under 'Command Prompt' CHKDSK says it is
'Incorrect MS-DOS version'.
Can anyone suggest some approaches that I can take to recover the important
legal documents (scanned image files) that I have on the lost NTFS
partition?
Thanks.
Ian St. John
I have three large partitions on my hard drive. I was using one FAT32
partition as a legacy MS WinME OS with many applications and many years of
work. A second was an NTFS WinXP partition that I used more frequently. The
nice thing about partitions is that it gives you a degree of protection from
the devastation of viruses. I was using either the WinXP multiboot loader or
Partition Magic's multiboot program. I also have a small (78 MB) DOS
partition for DOS Partition Magic.
Recently the NTFS WinXP partition file system has become corrupted and
inconsistent. I've been unable to boot WinXP from that partition. Partition
Magic can see the partition but it tells me the partition has errors. Only
WinXP can fix the file system. I've installed a new version of WinXP on my
spare partition in a valiant effort to recovery some important legal
documents that reside on that partition. During installation of new WinXP
from CD the install program told me that the lost partition was an OS/2 file
system; it could identify it as NTFS because it was corrupted. Under my new
WinXP, the utility 'Disk Management' can see the lost partition file system,
it says the file system's healthy NTFS, but otherwise unknown and with no
drive letter. Using 'Command Prompt', I am see a partition for which I am
told 'The device is not ready'. Under 'Command Prompt' CHKDSK says it is
'Incorrect MS-DOS version'.
Can anyone suggest some approaches that I can take to recover the important
legal documents (scanned image files) that I have on the lost NTFS
partition?
Thanks.
Ian St. John