partition corrupted

[ripken204]

i was trying to resize a partition again...

and something else happened, windows froze in the middle of it!

so when i restarted it, my d: drive became corrupted

i have this program called "Active Undelete" which allows me to view and recover files on my d: drive

the problem is that i cannot resize my d: drive and it takes up 60gigs of my 80gig hdd. i have no other means of backing the files up and i have not found a way to just fix the partition.

somehow there is no file system attached to the d: drive?

and chkdsk gives me the error "deleting orphan file record segment #####"

the ###### is just a bunch of numbers, i get many of these errors

[nmX.Memnoch]

This is why I don't like resizing partitions...

If you can manage to just delete any partitions on the drive and reformat it (with quick format), then you can use RecoverMyFiles.

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

Just don't write anything to the drive before running that, and be sure to do your recovery to a different drive.

[spacesurfer]

I don't have a solution to your problem. But I have resized partitions plenty of times using Norton PartitionMagic 8.0.5 and I have never had a problem.

This is what I do to make sure it runs smoothly:

1) Run comprehensive Scandisk on all partitions that will be affected. This will eliminate any potential errors.

2) Resize partition from DOS, using DOS version.

3) Run comprehensive Scandisk to make sure everything occurs as it was supposed to.

4) Defrag all partitions affected.

Question: how did your drive become corrupted? Did you run scandisk and it found errors or simply chkdsk?

[Nakatomi2010]

Try a Knoppix CD, it might be able to see the files on the partition... Another option would be to get a hold of one of those Windows 98 floppies that has NTFS capabilities on it and run NTFSCHK from it.. Worked for me in the past, though my circumstances were a bit different... I was getting NTFS.SYS errors....

Still, worth a shot...

[Mordac85]

Unless you saved a copy of the partition BEFORE you started it's Hobson's choice as to what data may be recovered. There are some free utils for this, SavePart and PTedit. It's just a crap shoot otherwise cuz it's like finding what you want in a reference manual w/o the table of contents.