Error: Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.

[Guest Ham Pastrami]

I have been using Acronis Disk Director to manage my partitions and, until

now, it has worked pretty well. Today, however, I tried an operation that

seems to have hosed one of my partitions, though I believe the data is still

intact. These are all NTFS.

 

Before, I had two partitions

C: Primary, Active

D: Extended/Logical

 

I then ran a resize and create operation so that I would end up with

C: no change

D: shrink partition, leaving room at the end

E: new primary partition created from D's space

 

However, the actual result was that I got

C: no change

D: reports original size, 0 bytes free, unreadable

 

If I try to chkdsk, I get the error in the subject line. Acronis reports the

"file record" which I assume to mean some file table as 1kb which doesn't

sound right. I'm currently running a GetDataBack scan on the drive and it is

finding files and directories so I'm optimistic that most of the data is

still intact, but I wonder if it's possible to simply rebuild the NTFS

structure on-disk and not have to go through the hoop of copying the data to

another drive.