[Novalug] gparted busted my NTFS partition

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Hi,

  I have used systemrescuecd 0.3.x CD and performed what It should be a 
normal partitioning with gparted.

  I had two partitions: 1 NTFS partition bootable for Windows 2000, 
another extended partition, one logical partition with NTFS (data) and 
some space unpartitioned.

  I created an extra NTFS partition in the unpartitioned space. I 
rebooted, booted into Windows 2000 and format that new NTFS partition. 
Everything seemed to be fine but when I started Alcohol the system 
became unstable and started to report missing dlls. I rebooted and then 
the Windows 2k partition couldn't be booted.

  I ran systemrescuecd again and gparted reported that first NTFS 
partition as unknown.

  I have run testdisk and can't find any data there. ntfsfix reports it 
as corrupted telling me

  NTFS signature is missing

  I still can access the data partition, I'm backing it up now and 
getting ready to do whatever I can try to get the OS NTFS partition back 
or reinstall it.

  Any hints?

  Thanks

  Miguel