I'm having problems booting to Windows XP due to bad sectors on the hard drive. I've tried fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console. That only made matters worse. Now I want to use GParted to attempt data rescue and format the hard drive to NTFS. Unfortunately, I get an error (Picture 2) when trying to recover my files, and the option to format the hard drive is grayed out. The only thing I can do is create a new partition.
When I click "view" I get the "Unable to open the default file manager" error
Best Answer
For recovering data use
Testdisk
: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk There is also a nice step by step tutorial: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_StepTo format, make sure that the partition is not mounted by running on terminal the command
mount
. If it is mounted, umount it withumount /mnt/path
and then format withmkfs.ntfs /dev/sdX
.