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by osmorphyus
08 Aug 2015, 02:03
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize
Replies: 9
Views: 5267

SOLVED - Re: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted re

Alright, progress update.. Fiona, your advice - WORKED! THANK YOU!

After "Writing" the partition data in TD as you suggested, I was ABLE TO BOOT into my Windows partition, once again. This was great news, but not the end of the journey. Upon getting into this boot, I had a blue screen with no icons ...
by osmorphyus
07 Aug 2015, 23:49
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize
Replies: 9
Views: 5267

Re: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize

Fiona, Thank you for taking the time to analyse the data I entered. I will do as you suggested, using the "Write" command and touch base from there. Yes, since I cannot save a .LOG file I won't be able to save a backup.

I will write back after doing this with the results. Thank you so very much ...
by osmorphyus
06 Aug 2015, 08:44
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize
Replies: 9
Views: 5267

Re: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize

I suppose this tells it all, as see in the Bash terminal after running TD,


TestDisk: Log file corrupted!



I don't know what to do now. Pretty sure I just need to fix the geometry of the disk, but I don't know how and I don't want to lose my data.

I don't have many resources available as I ...
by osmorphyus
06 Aug 2015, 08:41
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize
Replies: 9
Views: 5267

Re: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize

Stage one:

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org


TestDisk is free data recovery software designed to help recover lost
partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms
are caused ...
by osmorphyus
06 Aug 2015, 07:26
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize
Replies: 9
Views: 5267

Re: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize

Hello, and thank you for your time and reply.

I am currently booting through a very slim Gentoo distro now which also includes TD. All of my files remain in tact on my hard drive, I can view them using the "P" keystroke as well as with the Gentoo included FM.


The partition was mislabeled during ...
by osmorphyus
06 Aug 2015, 03:02
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize
Replies: 9
Views: 5267

Cylinder/Head mismatch on NTFS after GParted resize

Hello,

Last night I used GParted to increase the size of my bootable G: partition in effort to well, have more usable space for video editing. After completing the resize "successfully" the computer will now no longer boot.

GParted has TestDisk on it. As of this time, I have wrote NOTHING to the ...