corrupt ntfs-- need help please

[tmoneygetpaid]

Hello,,,,,

So I was trying to repartition my XP system drive to install Ubuntu, but attempting the repartition in both the Gparted and Norton Partition Magic failed. The latter gave me an error of "mismatch in directory" or something similar.

I tried running chkdsk /f, fixmft from recovery console, and a bunch of other recovery options, none of which seem to work. Strangely, chkdsk only returns errors when I don't place the /f option. It gives different index errors every time I run it, though sometimes it returns no indexing errors and when it reaches the security verification stage, it tells me there is a mismatch in the mft.

I then had the idea of ghosting to another partition both to backup data and to see if I could resize the partition once it was in another physical space. Chkdsk now returns no errors on the ghosted version, but I still can't resize the partition and I'm getting the same error as before.

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening and if/ how I can fix my mft/ ntfs?

thanks much.

 

[Tlkki]

So the xp partition is still working? yes? Then just delete the new partition and try again. I dunno very much about linux, but IIRC ntfs is not the correct file system for it.

typo

 

[tmoneygetpaid]

oops, maybe that was confusing. the xp partition is working, but it's file system is messed up ON THE XP partition (I haven't installed linux because I can't repartition)-- chkdsk sometimes reports that the mft is incorrect and I can't resize that partition.

 

[tmoneygetpaid]

bump... please help

 

[tmoneygetpaid]

bump

 

[tmoneygetpaid]

bump

 

[Kalmah]

I'm not quite following you on some things.. I think I would just backup what I can and delete both partitions and do a format.

*shrug*