Hello all,
Iīve bumped into some strange things with a NTFS partition of mine. I am running a dual boot machine with w2k and suse 9.2. I just reinstalled w2k on it. After that one of my NTFS partitions stopped working under windows. Though it is perfectly readable from linux.
Windows sees the physical drive but claims it to be corrupted, so does partitionmagic.
As far as I know linux havenīt written to the NTFS partition as I believe they are read only under linux.
Anyone whoīs got a clue of what I could do to resurrect it in w2k?

Help much appreciated!

Make a new NTFS partition. Copy all files to the new partition to a FAT partition on Linux. Mount the drive containing the FAT partition on Windows and copy everything to the new NTFS one. Remove the old one and the FAT.

Another chance: there is a tool called "partition image" (http://www.partimage.org/) on Linux that allows archival and duplication of partitions including NTFS. I had no luck when I used it (WinXP still failed to read the original and recreated partition) but your mileage may vary. My Windows XP failed to read my old Win2k NTFS partition in the same situation as you are, but I just moved all the files needed to keep to my FAT partition and removed the partition altogether.

A Win2k install won't read a Win2k partition. That's strange. But it didn't come to me as unexpected as I haven't found NTFS reliable after all.

interesting that someone else has encountered the same thing. Yes, your solution has come to mind. But that will be a last resort. At the moment I havenīt got the space to create extra partitions. I need to get a new HD to backup things.

This partition that is lost to w2k has just been a normal drive, it never had w2k installed on it.

The partimage thing looks interesting, will keep it in mind for the future. It says itīs NTFS support is experimental though, maybe that was why it didnīt work for you?

Thanks for the input so far.
Anyone else with insight into this issue?

The recreated partition could be read on Linux. It just didn't work for Windows itself. So I assumed that was not perfect but not totally invalid filesystem.

Just found this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153973/EN-US/