Guest sean Posted August 22, 2008 Posted August 22, 2008 one of my server which was running Windows 2003 Server w/ Sp2 crashed due to hard drive problem. The server had a 120gig HD which was partition into two. 1st partition was 30gig which was Windows installed and 2nd partition was unallocated. After rebooting with Windows 2003 CD and went into recovery, I cannot see the directory listing when issuing "dir". I get an error about an error occurred during directory enumeration. I ran chkdsk /p and it indicates another error. What I found out was there is NO free space available on the 1st partition. When I ran Windows 2003 setup, it does see the partition but it indicates it is in "raw" filesystem. I downloaded a systemrescuecd linux boot disk and ran gparted program. it does see the 30gig partition and it knows it is ntfs, but I couldn't resize the partition or anything because there are alot of errors on filesystem. It says run chkdsk /f from windows. I also placed the drive into another Windows 2003 machine as a secondary drive. I couldn't access it either. Is there a tool out there that would allow me to access the partition and delete some files so I can access it and recover some important files. (sorry there was no backup in this box. my bad!) or any other suggestions? thanks in advance sean
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