Fixing a partition table ...

[Abhi]

This problem happened in my laptop, it was running Windows XP Home which was working fine. It had 2 NTFS partitions to begin with.

The machine refused to boot up. Gave the BSOD.

I booted up using the XP CD rom to reinstall windows. When i tried to repair install windows, the partitions were gone, showing approx 60 gbs of unknown partition ...

Then i went into the xp Recovery Console, and tried the following..

chkdsk
chkdsk /r

both didnt work, saying the disk had unrecoverable partition errors...

Then i stupidly did the following

fixboot
fixmbr

Now the windows setup recognized 1 60 gb FAT partition ... with 10 mb free on it.
I had NTFS partitions.... my "fixboot" commant fvcked something up

What do i do now.... any way i can get the data back? Someone in the Operating Systems forums said I need to rebuild the partition table...

Any other way out? If not, how do i do that?

Thanks

 

[Abhi]

???

 

[Abhi]

Fixed

 

[JeffBruce]

since I see no responses..I was thinking if you run this and resize it, just alittle...see what happens..
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

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