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Topic: Error, then failed to save details

Greetings:

I was working on one of our school's computers last night, shrinking a Windows ntfs partition so I could create another partition on which to install Debian. I was using Gparted from a Knoppix 5.1.1 CD. I didn't have documention with me and should have waited until I'd read it, but didn't. It worked on it for a while, then gave an error message noting failure. The desktop icons for both the hard drive and the flash drive (usb memory stick that I'd saved some data on earlier) disappeared from the desktop. It was getting late so I shut down and went home.

Now that I've reviewed the documentation this morning, I see that I should have saved the details even though there was an error, but I didn't do that. I just shut down. Now I'm worried that I lost data on the memory stick. The hard drive we were going to put Debian on anyway. Dual-boot would have been nice, but not mandatory. But the borrowed usb stick -- I don't know yet if there was critical data on it. I'll find out in an hour. Could I have messed that up? Do I boot Windows now with the usb stick in place and hope it'll work or should I boot Knoppix and hope that I can mount the stick and check it out? Or should I try it in another computer? I don't want to do any more damage. Now I'm wondering if I resized a 4 GB stick instead of  a 40 GB hard drive.... It's stuff like this that wakes me up at 3 am. Any advice from more experienced people than I would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Error, then failed to save details

I would suggest booting from GNU/Linux and checking the USB stick to see what it contains.

To see the partition layout on the USB stick, open a terminal windows and at the command line type in the following:
     

fdisk -l -u

Note that is a lower case L in the command above