Rebuild a ntfs partition table?

[I.R.A]_FBi · Dec 14, 2008, 07:45 PM

i need to rebuild a ntfs partition table without formating and losing the data. how do i do this? its saying drive needs to be formated
but doing a chkdsk /f but at the end it says aborted insufiecnt space to fix volume bitmap. Tis an external drive

mikek75 · Dec 14, 2008, 07:56 PM

Hunt down a utility called testdisk, the one I used was 6.9. I had lost my partition table buggering about one day, and testdisk sorted it out in seconds.

Solaris17 · Dec 14, 2008, 08:14 PM

i have test disk 6.10 do you want it? im trying to use it right now for my 1TB backup drive..

mikek75 · Dec 14, 2008, 08:18 PM

LOL, trying? If I could work it I'm sure you'll manage it...

Solaris17 · Dec 14, 2008, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by mikek75

LOL, trying? If I could work it I'm sure you'll manage it...

you have no idea how wrecked my drive is....my rig went into sleep mode (mistake) and i didnt know that i forgot to disable sleep mode...so i wake the rig up and my drive is gone.....i run my disk and i rebult the MBR etc and i get it back as a currupted partition so i do some scans and my MFT and their respective mirrors are F@#$

mikek75 · Dec 14, 2008, 08:48 PM

Ouch, sounds nasty. I shagged mine by having a dual boot config over two drives, and setting the pagefile of my Vista on the XP disc, which didn't work, LOL. Yours sounds very complicated, good luck!

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