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grub2 package

  1. Bug #730225
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 730225

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Wei-Yee Chan (chanweiyee) wrote : Re: grub-install trashes ntfs partition when sector 32 of the hard disk is occupied by Adobe FlexNet

Hi bsfmig and billbear,

In my case, chkdsk didn't work as even Windows XP couldn't recognise my partition. For chkdsk to work, a partition must first be recognised as a Windows partiton, be it NTFS, FAT16 or FAT32. My corrupted partition was recognised as a raw filesystem.

Also, I do not have FlexNet installed.

In my case, the only utility that worked to repair the partition was TestDisk (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TestDisk).

Using this utility, I recovered the MFT.

Perhaps this might offer a clue as to what is going on.