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I made a primary Dos partion by mistake and set it to be active using FDISK in FreeDos. Now my NTFS won't work! Linux says it's corrupt. I have a lot of files on it. Does anyone know a good program to fix it? I need help :-\ :-\ :-\

also if anyone read my thread about my win 98 reinstall problem, it might be fdisk. i made a primary dos partition. is that all i need to do? i thought i had to make a file system or something.

That's all I did and it corrupted the NTFS! (I was trying to add another OS)

I did the same twice with my Hard disk too couple of times.

I knew the size of my partitions so could readjust my partitions with Ranish Partition manager obtainable here.
Cautions this is NOT a recovery tool and requires a little expertise.

Did it say your NTFS was corrupt? I know it ain't corrupt. Dos probably changed the partion info so programs may not know it is a NTFS.

Just in case, I made a hd map. I can use that map to slowly download lost files from online.

Here are some of the files left to download:
Crocodile Technology
MS3D
Dark Basic
Irfan view
E-Icons
Reverse Engineering Compiler
MIRC
Rapid Q
Free Hex Editor
Video Dub
AIM
Netzero

But still I have my projects and pictures on the hd. I can't lose that!

its not corrupt. nt is dumb. if you change anything to do with partitions, ntloader says winnt is corrupt or missing.

use an editor to change the boot.ini file

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

change partition(3) to other numbers until it boots.

I am using GRUB. And Linux can't even mount the partion.

MS3D? Do you use it for Half-Life modelling?

Hmmm, I used the normal partitioning system to repartition my old partition after reformatting my main HD and installing a new distro of Linux, and it automagically appeared again. While I don't suggest arsing around with your partitions... necessarily... if you really wanted to, you could gut your DOS partition and reset everything back to its original state with your default partitioning tool.

I personally wouldn't install any other OSes after Linux...

About the MS3D, I was using it to make models for a game I am working on. The game is coded in Dark Basic.

About the other thing, I know that the best solution is to ire-install it all. But, I am not giving up yet. Is there a tool in Linux that reads a corrupted device, and tries to find files in it? I found some, but they didn't support NTFS.

I went to http://sourceforge.net and ran a search for "recover corrupt NTFS" and found some promising responses including,

Linux NTFS file system support The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (v1.2 and later 3.0), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPLed programs. released files97.69%

and,

Partition Image Partition Image is an utility to save partitions (ext2/3fs, reiserfs, fat16, fat32, hpfs, ntfs) into an image file. Only used blocks of the partition are saved, and the image can be compressed in gzip or bzip2 format. You can split the image into small f