PLEASE HELP!! Removed linux has killed my NTFS partition!!

wesley

wesley

wesley

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hi guys

i'm in deep **** right now! i'm not sure if here is right place to ask

i had 2 partitions on my laptop for a while ( 40GB - XP and 20GB linux Mint 5)

i got bored with Mint and wanted to remove the linux partition and try the windows 7.

boot up with powerquest magicpartition with hiren CD, removed the linux partition and left the NTFS partition alone. applied then rebooted the laptop.

during booting up the XP for few seconds then i get very fast flash of BSOD (too quick to see what the error message was)

so i boot up with slax LIVE CD, the NTFS partition appeared in Konqueror but when i go in the NTFS hard drive, i get this error message, pls see the screenshot.



i get the permission denied when i try to mount the NTFS partition. i really need to access the NTFS partition so i can recover important data so i can format the whole hard drive.

thanks
 
You should be able to mount the drive using the force param on mount -t. Have you tried typing that mount command in console as it looks like you typed the wrong one? :confused:
 
Firstly, you've typed the wrong mount command - you need the one above it.

What's happened here is probably that you've deleted the Linux partition but left the master boot record pointing to the Linux bootloader. It then tries to load the next stage of the bootloader from the Linux partition, but throws a wobbly because you've deleted it. You can fix your Windows install by booting to the recovery console from a Windows CD and typing fixmbr. This will alter the MBR to point to your Windows partition and should allow you to boot again.
 
got it sorted at the end, i managed access the NTFS partition and copy/paste my document folder to network drive.

tried the fixboot etc, doesnt help. so i formatted the hard drive with fdisk and installed windows 7. looking good :cool:

thanks
 
what, no backup of your files

get yourself a hard drive and an icybox mate

then..

robocopy /e "c:\myfilestobackup" "x:\backup\myfilestobackup"

run that whenever you want an incremental backup
 
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