Windows partition asks for FORMAT!!!!

FLX · 04-08-2005, 12:09 PM

Hi,

I'm a genuine linux n00b, and since 2 days ago i installed SuSE 9.2 Pro as Dual boot on my box, for learning matters.
i have two windows partitions, C and D
C holds the Windows installation and Program files etc etc
D hold my personal files, including documents music and applications.

The whole linux installation went fine and i had no problems, everything worked fine.
Until i wanted to make a FAT partition in linux so i could transfer files from linux to windows and vice versa.

I did this with Partitioner, that comes along with YAST2
Anywayz, i took 2gb of the D windows partition, and created a new partition (FAT) with 2gb size.

I reboot my pc and i want togo into my windows D partition, but it sez something like not mounted.
I thought that is strange, and booted up my WinXP pro.
/me goes My Computer -> D:

Code:

---------------------------------------------------------[X]
|                                                          |
| Partition Empty! you want to format?                     |
|                                                          |
------------------------------------------------------------

What the F is up with this? i resize the partition, and it just gets unreadable?! WTF?!
Anywayz, i didnt format it yet because i hope some of you geniuses knows how to bring my baby back.
I got a (small) backup, but it also very outdated!
Its real important that i get this back, because there are alot of important files on it that i need to have!

Does someone knows how to help me?
Contact me in this thread, Pm me, mail me on flxfxp [at] gmail [dot] com or talk with me on msn @ the same adress!

Thanks alot in advance,

/me prays....

FLX

redhatrosh · 04-08-2005, 12:29 PM

Hey dude, providing a solution for this ......for me is not a simple task. However, there are some questions in my mind ........
how did you chose your D:\ partition (which already had some filesystem, I presume FAT32), becoz it has now been mapped under linux and probably windows fails to recognize it as its old D:\. May be that's the reason windows is asking you to format it. Just check whether you can access this partiton in sUSE 9.2.(which wud be /mnt/hda5, if it is a logical partition) If this fails, and u have a CD-RW (CD-RW Drive as well!!) u can download knoppix from
www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html, which is a 700 MB live CD distro, and back up important files and proceed with the format.
(I assume u have installed your SUSE on a free space on you hdd with probably /boot and /swap as separate partitions)

FLX · 04-08-2005, 01:03 PM

the partition is NTFS.
its about 115 gb is size
with Partitioner from YAST i resized it to 112 gb and created a new partition using FAT (16 i believe)
here is a screenshot:
http://img98.exs.cx/img98/985/yast20000ds.png

hda1 is Windows Partition C:
hda5 is Windows Partition D: (resized and not readable now)
hda6 is the FAT partition i made

here is a screenshot of the FAT Partition settings:
http://img87.exs.cx/img87/3117/yast20013dt.png

if you need more info i would be happy to supply

redhatrosh · 04-08-2005, 01:16 PM

by looking at the information you have supplied, i think nothing is wrong actually. The only thing to be thought about is that whether the resizing did affect the information in windows of the partitions. Windows is assuming that u have created a new partition of 112GB and is asking to format it. (that's what I think). And were u able to access the FAT partiton (its FAT32 as per the image u showed me) and your D:\ (hda5) drive from SUSE? If yes, then, only windows has some problem in its partition information table.

FLX · 04-08-2005, 01:24 PM

i was able to axx them both, until i rebooted.
@ windows windows started jammering about the FAT partition to be formatted, but i didnt, i just left it like it is.
and i dont think i erased a whole partition, because:
1. i did resize, and i dont think it would completely format
2. it was done within 4 minutes, a complete quickformat of 115 gb? ...i dunno...

FLX · 04-08-2005, 01:40 PM

I thought: maybe it aint mounted so this i did in console:

linux:/ # umount /dev/hda5
umount: /dev/hda5: not mounted

linux:/ # mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt/drived
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

i got nothing mounted, so it gotta be a bad block or something : /
when i resized it with Partitioner i just clicked on the partition and clicked: resize.
now if i want to resize hda5 i get: "You cannot resize the selected partition because the filesystem on this partition does not support beeing resized"
i can press edit and then i get:

http://img96.exs.cx/img96/3607/yast20035kq.png

Thanks for the support so far