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Is it possible to access a corrupted partition?

I've installed Ubuntu and then I tried dual-booting with Windows but it wouldn't boot for some damn reason. After getting some help, I've found out that my Windows XP NTFS partition became corrupted on my laptop's HD. I have absolutely no idea how... I can't run chkdsk on it because it says that it's an "unrecoverable error on the harddisk."
So my question is:
Is there any way I can access a corrupt partition or is it gone for good/I have to reformat it?
Or does anybody know of any good software that can repair this crap (and boot up from a CD since my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive...)?
Do you think DiskPatch can do the job? I don't want to take any chances.

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This should be able to do it.

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I would attach the hard drive to another system, and make an image of the disk.

Then, use disk check utilities on the image, and see what happens.

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Sykil | | UT or die

Originally posted by Xaimoatse:

I would attach the hard drive to another system, and make an image of the disk.

Then, use disk check utilities on the image, and see what happens.

Oooh... very very smart idea.

I've actually had the same type thing happen after I installed debian or at least partitioned it where windows in its partition views and even in partition magic's partition views would show the drive as being empty or unreadable or something similar. I was still able to access the paritions that windows and partition magic had told me were not there just fine, so my parititon table must have been corrupt. Make sure that it isn't just your partition table that is corrupt because that is an easy fix.

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