Hard Disk Partition Raw To Ntfs

[Billi Plancarte]

Iam trying to install Windows 8.1 onto a desktop I have that currently has Ubuntu. When I installed Ubuntu, the installer automatically reformatted the drive from NTFS to whatever format it was that it preferred. Now, the Windows installer can't automatically format the drive back to NTFS. I can't format the drive from within Ubuntu because, well, that's the drive the operating system is on.

and about the first problem. there is way with the grub. I have no idea about that method. I know a method that may be really helpful, but sort of lengthy. Try to install Ubuntu again. when installing option comes, choose the options with something else (partitioning the drive).

I know this is a super old topic but just in case there migh be some people (like me) wondering what the solution is :When you get to the windows installation screen, you have on the bottom left the repair button, click on it, then on the next screen, "troubleshoot" then "Command Prompt". Just enter the command "diskpart" and you should be able to format your disk to NFTS (with the command "format fs=ntfs quick")

NTFS (New Technology File System) is a modern file system, applied by the Windows NT operating system and its advanced versions. Compared with the earlier FAT file system, NTFS has advantages in performance, extensibility, and reliability, which owns various functions like file/folder/partition compression and encryption, etc. Partition beyond 2TB is allowed on NTFS drive and file over 4GB in size can be stored on NTFS drive.

In general, your hard drive has only one partition, made by computer manufactures. To protect data and facilitate data management, you may need more partitions on your disk. For instance, if there is one partition, your operating system, programs, and data will be stored in one partition. If there are two or more partitions, you can separate them, so that you can reinstall system and keep data stored in other partitions if your OS is damaged or crashed.

Apart from basic features like shrinking and extending partition, AOMEI Partition Assistant is featured with more functions like merging partition, resizing BitLocker partition, and so on. It is with a user-friendly interface so that it can be handled even by green hand in computer. It is specially designed for Windows system, thus you can use it in different Windows systems including Windows 11/10/8/7, XP, and Vista.

At the same time, any OS is unable to mount my root partition, which is located next to my NTFS partition. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, though. I get the following error while trying to mount my root partition (sda5)

I've just fixed my USB drive using "testdisk", a Linux command line (yet friendly) utility. My drive was not even mounting in Windows and Windows 8 discovered like 6 partitions (when the drive had only one).

Now, thats not wonder, because you are trying to fsck the disk, and not its partition.What fsck does is, it tries to recognize the FS type. Because you have given it raw disk surface, it fails to recognize and resorts to default type - ext, calling fsck.ext.

As soon as a disk starts giving unrecoverable read errors (UREs), it should be replaced immediately and only used for data recovery. (An excessive level of non-UREs also indicates replacement is needed.)

Most likely you can still recover your data by using the secondary MFT stored at the end of the disk. It is usually not used, but it should contain an up-to-date version of your directory structure. There is a good chance it was not affected by the disk errors.

In the past, I have used Runtime Software's (commercial, 79$) product GetDataBack NTFS with great success for this. It is one of the few NTFS tools (the only?) that runs in WINE and as a Linux LiveCD, and the free demo should be enough to see if your data is still there. If it is, your data might just be worth buying the tool.

But for the benefit of others facing actual NTFS corruption - unfortunately the ntfsfix tool is very limited compared to Microsoft's chkdsk. Try to get a Windows install going - preferably with the newest version of Windows as Microsoft is presumably constantly improving chkdsk (I hope..) Newer versions of Windows are often available for free as trials. If the problem is in a USB disk you can try installing Windows in something like VirtualBox and give the VM control of the USB device.

Hi, how would I format a external hard drive partition to NTFS for windows ? There's no option in disk utility. Only MS-DOS ( FAT ) , ExFat, free space, Mac OS extended- journaled, Mac OS extended, journaled case sensitive.

Some may argue for you to install third party software to allow the Mac to format and write NTFS, but that's a waste of money and can be glitchy, break when you need it to work or have to reinstall OS X for some reason.

ok i wasn't clear, I want to make a backup of my windows partition and mac partition on my macbook pro retina on to ONE external hard drive. So I wanted to make two partitions on the external hard drive, one mac os extended journaled and one NTFS .

Best then to create the backup drive partitions both as Mac OS Extended. The first would be for making a bootable clone of your Mac partition. Disk Utility can do that. Or you can use the third party apps Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper!. Either of the latter are much preferable because once the initial full clone is complete, either paid, full version can do incremental updates which will change only what is necessary on the cloned drive to match the source. Disk Utility can only do the full drive every time, so you have to wait for the entire drive to be cloned, every time.

The reason for making the second partition also Mac OS Extended is that you never even have to leave the Mac OS to backup your Windows partition. Purchase Winclone. With it, you can create backups of your NTFS drive as a disk image to the Mac formatted drive, or restore it. All without ever leaving OS X. The second partition can then also be used to backup any other data from your Mac instead of being locked in as an NTFS partition, only good for cloning Windows from within Windows.

NTFS isn't more stable. At least, not to the Mac. It's great for Windows when Windows is the OS you're in. If you're in OS X, Mac OS Extended is course the most stable since that is OS X's native drive format.

There is no software that can do both parittions at the same time and be bootable or restore properly to a different sized drive or restore the RecoveryHD partition. Some have tried with some other softwares and have problems with lost drive space.

Also, backup your files in Windows (and OS X) to a regular external exFAT drive that was formatted on the oldest Windows machine your going to connect to, OS X doesn't do exFAT correctly so Windows can't read it. The exFAT partition using Winclone likely won't be readable by a Windows PC.

Well, maybe not entirely unnecessary if you want to pull one, or a few files out of the backup while in Windows. In which case, I would suggest Norton Ghost. Once installed in Windows, it can create a live backup. Once done, you can open the backup and pull any files out of it you want. Two caveats with that, though:

I haven't really looked at other Windows backup solutions in a while. Norton was the best one I came across in my hunt at the time. What Norton actually did was buy out the makers of Drive Image, which I still own a copy of. If you look at that older software, it's pretty obvious Norton lifted the whole thing, did a little (very little) tweaking and put their name on it.

Really good post but I don't think there is a good reason for two partitions. If you do go with 2 partition, no need for one to be ex-fat at all. With winclone, just as easy to keep the winclone image on a Mac extended journaled partition. Maybe keep it at root level and tell CCC not to delete things at the root level but delete everything else. If restoring from the clone, just exclude winclone image. If two partitions, safer to keep it on a mac extended journaled.

"I want to make a backup of my windows partition and mac partition on my macbook pro retina on to ONE external hard drive. So I wanted to make two partitions on the external hard drive, one mac os extended journaled and one NTFS ."

All of these solutions suggest using separate third party backup programs for both bootcamp and OS X. Can one set this up to use time-machine to do regular updating of the backup? It looks like WinClone is the best for the PC side, but I can't tell from these posts if one can use time-machine when doing the dual backups on the same external HD that has a partition for both bootcamp and OS X.

Two partitions would be the minimum. Time Machine can only backup Mac OS Extended formatted partitions. It will not, and cannot backup any other type of drive. The partition TM is using for your Mac backups also must be Mac OS Extended. Further, you cannot manually drop any other data onto a partition being used by TM, or you will screw it up.

So the other partition must be used for your other backup data not being handled by Time Machine. Winclone can write the Windows disk image to a Mac formatted partition, so it doesn't need to be NTFS. It can also restore the Windows partition while booted to OS X. Since the Winclone data is a disk image, the drive is free to be used for any other files you want to manually copy to it. It doesn't need to be reserved for Winclone's data.\

The drawback is that Windows itself cannot use the Mac formatted drive for manual backup of individual files unless you purchase something like HFS+ for WIndows. Then both the Mac and Windows can use the same Mac OS Extended partition for manual file copying, while still leaving it open for Winclone to create full disk image backups of your Windows drive.

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