Partition modification made Windows crash
Hi all,
I have an HP laptop with both Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Vista installed on it. The other day I noticed I was running out of space in the main linux partition (the / partition, not the /home partition), so I decided to move some space from the Windows partition and move it to the linux one. I used a GParted Live CD to do that. My partitions are ordered as follows:
After doing that, I went to my linux and everything seemed to be fine, I'm also quite sure I had access to my Windows partition as always. But today I tried to start my Windows and it just got stuck on the "loading" stage (that screen that says "Microsoft Corporation" and has a green loading bar). So I shut the computer down manually (by holding the power button for a few seconds). After doing that a couple of time, I went to my linux, which worked just fine, but I was not able to go to the Windows partition. You can see how GParted looks now for my computer: http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/1122/gpartedo.png As you can see, the first partition (/dev/sda1), which is supposed to be the Windows partition, is not mounted and the system doesn't seem to be able to read it properly. Here is my attempt to mount it manually: Code:
omri@omri-laptop:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /windows/ Can anyone please help me? :( :( Thanks a lot! |
If you have ntfsprogs installed, you can run ntfsfix and/or ntfsck to update the filesystem references for the change in the partition.
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Thanks, that worked great and also made Windows perform chkdisk automatically the next time I ran it!
You saved my highly significant files, thanks so much :D |
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