FG

How to fix a damaged/corrupted NTFS filesystem/partition without losing the data on it?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202691680 views
Confidence Score0%
0%

Problem

I was going to install Fedora 15 along side my Windows 7 Starter on my Acer Apire One D255E and at some point during the resizing of the NTFS partition (the one with Windows on it) the setup failed. Now I cannot access this partition from any OS. When I tried to access it from a Fedora install runn…

Error Output

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 12: Failed to read last sector (452534271):
Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but i…

Unverified for your environment

Select your OS to check compatibility.

1 Fix

Canonical Fix
Unverified Fix
New Fix – Awaiting Verification

Fix for: How to fix a damaged/corrupted NTFS filesystem/partition without losing the data on it?

Low Risk

If you can get Ubuntu on a live CD and install NTFS-3G and NTFSProgs (in the repositories), you might be able to recover your NTFS sorrows. I had to do this once for a friend's PC, and I followed this guy's How To. It's very helpful and it should ei…

Awaiting Verification

Be the first to verify this fix

Sign in to verify this fix

Environment