Recovering an NTFS partition.
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I was doing an archlinux install. This was actually my fault the NTFS partition is corrupted, I created the partitions for arch, and ran mkfs on them, when the arch installer asked if I wanted it to create a file system on them, I said yes..... It didn't work, so I started over and deleted the partitions, and created them without doing mkfs, arch detected that I did this earlier and asked me if I wanted to run it again that way. Well here's what happened, I set the boot partition to /dev/sda1 instead of 2, previously I had 3 partitions, not 4. That first one was the NTFS partition. To make matters worse, it's not even my computer.
Okay, so I first downloaded a livecd with testdisk, which previously recovered my vista partition on the computer that WAS mine. Well.... testdisk found my partition, it had a broken MBR so I rebuilt it. So now, I went to see if I could mount it, well, it was damaged and wouldn't mount, I opened up testdisk again, and tried to do "list files", well it seems that the NTFS filesystem was damaged. Whoops. So next I look online to find a solution, it seems that windows' checkdisk (chkdsk) would be of help. I downloaded a recovery console ISO, and booted from it. I ran chkdsk, it wasn't marked as dirty, so I did chkdsk /p. Instantly it said "The volume seems to have one or more unrecoverable problems". Well.... I really don't know what to do. I found this forum and it seems to be good with these types of issues. Is there a way I could partially recover the filesystem enough to mount and rescue the files? I don't care if it doesn't boot. I just want to rescue the files. If I can do that, I'm fine.
I was doing an archlinux install. This was actually my fault the NTFS partition is corrupted, I created the partitions for arch, and ran mkfs on them, when the arch installer asked if I wanted it to create a file system on them, I said yes..... It didn't work, so I started over and deleted the partitions, and created them without doing mkfs, arch detected that I did this earlier and asked me if I wanted to run it again that way. Well here's what happened, I set the boot partition to /dev/sda1 instead of 2, previously I had 3 partitions, not 4. That first one was the NTFS partition. To make matters worse, it's not even my computer.
Okay, so I first downloaded a livecd with testdisk, which previously recovered my vista partition on the computer that WAS mine. Well.... testdisk found my partition, it had a broken MBR so I rebuilt it. So now, I went to see if I could mount it, well, it was damaged and wouldn't mount, I opened up testdisk again, and tried to do "list files", well it seems that the NTFS filesystem was damaged. Whoops. So next I look online to find a solution, it seems that windows' checkdisk (chkdsk) would be of help. I downloaded a recovery console ISO, and booted from it. I ran chkdsk, it wasn't marked as dirty, so I did chkdsk /p. Instantly it said "The volume seems to have one or more unrecoverable problems". Well.... I really don't know what to do. I found this forum and it seems to be good with these types of issues. Is there a way I could partially recover the filesystem enough to mount and rescue the files? I don't care if it doesn't boot. I just want to rescue the files. If I can do that, I'm fine.
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