1 Topic by PrakashP (edited by PrakashP 2007-06-30 17:16:01)

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Topic: hosed ntfs partition on expand operation, how to recover?

Hi,

I had following partition layout:

ext2 primary
ntfs primary
extended partition with one logical ext3 partition.

I did following with gparted livecd (in one step):

delete logical ext3
delete extended
expand ntfs
apply

The problem is gparted stopped in the process of expanding the ntfs partition. Last successful message in details was "move partition to the left", and then it failed at "move filesystem to the left".

First of all, I don't understand why it wants to move something to the left? I wanted to grow the partion "to the right", didn't I? Anyways, I cannot mount the ntfs partition anymore. ntfs3g and ntfstools can't find a ntfs partition. IIRC current partition table is

ext2 primary
ntfs primary taking up whole space (need to check again, hd currently not connected to my system)

Could anybody help me how to make the partition workable again? Or how to at least extract some data.

2 Reply by LarryT

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Re: hosed ntfs partition on expand operation, how to recover?

It moves to the left first then expand the fs to the right. Moving a partition from the beginning is a very special operation.
To recover your partition, you should restore the backup you surely made before wink
An other possibility is to play with testdisk witch should be able to restore the partition table and partitions too.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
it is on the livecd.

Larry
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Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)