Broken disk partition -- please help

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:55 +0600, Sameera Shaakunthala wrote:
> I highly appreciate your replies to this post. But unfortunately,
> * ntfsprogs toolkit identifies the partition as ntfs but fails to
> recover
> * And the each time i puth the windows cd, it asks (the usual stupid
> question) to format the volume even when i try to install windows in
> another partition :(

Did you check the partition type with fdisk?

As a last resort, you might try and back up the volume with ntfsprogs
and see if it is possible to restore it to another partition or even a
loopback device, if you have enough disk space.
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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