somehow, and I sure as hell don't know how, something royally fucked up my computer when installing that kernel.

My linux OS won't start, and when i attempt to just reformat it I get errors.
Using Partition magic, I can't do shit either. I was attempting to resize my NTFS partition, but I get a wonderful error on that as well (Error 1555: Internal file number does not match position)

For the love of god, help me.

at this point I would like to point out that I am a god among men (unfortunetly still a man among gods here) and fixed it. I think.

Yes, it is true, I fixed it. Feel free to completely disregard this thread.

tedivm,

I have the same problem as yours. I've been searching for a solution but none came up. So, since you're the one person who have the experience of fixing this problem, I would really appreciate it you can let me know either through this posting or message me personally.

Thank you so much in advance.

Start a "chkdsk /r" or run it through My Computer on the harddrive in question. You will have to restart your computer and it will load on startup.


You need to do this multiple times, because m$ sucks.

After you've done it a few times, the error should go away. If you still have issues, IM me or something- now that I'm at school its always on.

actually, I can't even access my c drive.
When I ran partition magic, it shows an error in the middle of the process then it stopped.
now when I boot my computer, it seems like it loads up some stuffs off the c drive but then it just rebooted again before it's fully booted up and it keeps doing that over and over again until I turn off the computer.
From that, I assumed my harddrive is still readable (at least for some part of it) even though the partition is screwed up, so I'm hoping that I'd be able to save some important files from it.
I wonder if you have more tricks to do this other than the chkdsk
God among men, please help!

Which drive is it- the NTFS, EXT2, ?

If the drive itself is semi shot but you need to get files off of it, you can always make it a slave on another computer to copy the files.

Otherwise I would suggest using a bootdisk to run some sort of disk checking software. What OS are you using on that drive?

I'm running windows xp on that drive and it's got NTFS.

When I ran on a boot disk, I can't even get to the c drive.

This is a toshiba laptop and those toshiba people dont let their customers have access to the physical harddrive itself (there's no slot or anything for the harddrive) I've been sending emails to their tech support asking how to retrieve the harddrive but I havent got any reply yet. I dont want to just randomly unscrew things without knowing what I'm unscrewing. Usually I'm not scared of getting screwed for doing this kind of stuffs, but I've been in such a bad luck lately so that I'm trying to be careful now.

btw, thanks for all the helps so far.

What type of boot disk did you use? Win98 boot disks won't read NTFS.

I used xp boot disk.
Anyway, I just found a bootable NTFS reader and it worked great.
At least I can retrieve all the files I need and my problems solved, but it's reaaally slow though.
So, perhaps if anyone in this forum need it, I downloaded the program from www.ntfs.com.
thanks again for all the help, tedivm

Anytime. If you need anything else, just ask.

I almost lost my disk when I switched to Linux.

I got some cryptic PartitionMagic 8.0 error tha wasn't in the manual (but they listed the error numbers before and after it) and XP wouldn't boot. My solution was to use the XP CD, boot the rescue console, use chkdsk, and then copy my 60GB of files (I had already burned the other 40GB to CDs and I had run out of CDs) to my brother's hard drive.

The moral of this story... don't try to resize an NTFS partition unless you're willing to risk pain... and if you've got 60GB of fansubbed anime on your hard drive, have a brother who can store it for a few hours.

Having a fully functional Linux-CD around (ie. Knoppix or Mandrake-Move) has saved me many times.. especially because no Win98,.. bootdisk would read my 2k/xp drives and because I am using a notebook now that does not even have a diskette drive