Broken disk partition -- please help

[Sameera Shaakunthala]

Hi all,

Last week I was 'playing' (to experiment) with the grub-install and
update-grub. And my stupid experiment damaged the dev/sda1
I've lost my Windows boot partition. It's OK to lose Windows, but there were
some of my university assignments and documents in that partition -- I
really need it.

/dev/sda1 - NTFS primary - C:\
/dev/sda7 - linux-swap
/dev/sda8 - ext3 - /

gparted can recognize the partition as ntfs but can not calculate the free
space
ubuntu 8.04 can not mount the volume
Windows boot cd recognizes the partition as an unformatted volume and asks
to format it

Will gpart help me? (I'm too scared to use it.)
Please give me an idea of how do I,
* recover the important files existing on /dev/sda1 ?
or
* restore the partition without losing existing data? (I think it's
something with the MBR)


I hate Windows, but I have to use it for some of my university assignments
such as Visual Basic and C#.


If somebody can kindly give me a solution, it will be a great help for the
rest of my educational life.
Thank you.


* Sameera Shaakunthala




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