Resized hard drive partition, now it wont mount.

[hzy]

I have had a 1.5TB drive used as an external for 6 months or so, then I decided to put it in my linux server for network storage. ntfs was being crazy inefficient so I wanted to change the filesystem to ext4.

I used the ntfsresize command to reduce the partition to 650GB and that took abour 2 hours, then I deleted all of the entries in fstab like a guide told me too and created a new one the size of the ntfs partition, or, 650GB.

after I modified fstab the ntfs partition would no longer mount and when plugging it in to windows it says "This Hard Drive needs to be formatted". any ideas on how I can recover the data off of the drive? I have 600GB of free space on a different drive so I just need some way of copying them off.

[editline]7th January 2011[/editline]

I discovered the application TestDisk via reddit and that managed to find the lost partition and write it back into the partition table [url]http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk[/url]

[blaze_r20]

Sounds like your partition table was screwed up, and did you check your fstab edits with a 'sudo mount -a' ? If not you can manually recover your fstab...

Windows is super picky about drives. Use a LiveCD to boot into the drive and grab it's contents.