

At the partition selection prompt, it says that the partition type is unknown. Started Windows XP installation to see what it shows.Fired up recovery console from a Windows XP CD and ran chkdsk /R but it says (roughly translated!) "at least one irrecoverable error occurred".Partition offset, type and size are correct. It is perfectly okay (equal to the last backup). gparted recognizes the partition as NTFS but gives me the same error as the mount command.dd-based backup (using Clonezilla Live CD), so that I have infinite attempts to restore that thing.It and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. Important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a Incomplete multi-sector transfer: magic: 0x44414142 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 48 usa_count: 1 data: 588 usn: 590: Input/output errorįailed to mount '/dev/sda1': Input/output error When trying to mount the partition using a Ubuntu Karmic Live CD, I get the following error: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt Starting up Windows is not possible anymore, it stops with "A disk read error occurred". I have a 8-year old Windows-XP-only computer with one NTFS partition.
