Broken disk partition -- please help

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 14:52 +0000, Sameera Shaakunthala wrote:
> 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.

You might take a look at ntfsprogs.  e.g.

apt-get install ntfsprogs

The ntfsfix program may be what you need to get Windows to recognize the
partition. Before doing that, do an fdisk on your disk drive and see if
the partition type of sda1 is NTFS.  If it is not, then it will not be
recognized as an NTFS filesystem. You can safely  change the type of the
partition to NTFS.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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