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I have a portable HDD that splitted into 2 NTFS partitions, for some reason i boot Linux (Ubuntu) to clean a locked virus on each partitions, mounting was fine, deleting virus was done, tried booting to Windows XP again and what i found was one of partition became RAW, and i need the data.

For now i haven't touch the RAW partition, note the other partition works fine.

Can someone suggest me a way to recover the partition or the data inside it?

PS: freeware/opensource solutions are preferred

Edit: Strange enough i tried to read the portable HDD on Windows 2003 Server and it recognize the partition, but not with XP, i will backup all files before try to fix the boot sector

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What did you use to mount the partitions? Did you unmount the drives when you were done? – Randolph West Nov 3 '09 at 7:46
i use Ubuntu (gnome desktop) file manager, double click on portable hdd drive and it mount automatically (linux end user, not an advance user), i did unmount before shut down – Dels Nov 3 '09 at 8:30
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You might be able to recover your data with testdisk. It's available in ubuntu repositories.

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tested the windows version, but i don't understand how it works to recover partition? i can access the partition and view the file list and what next? – Dels Nov 3 '09 at 8:25
They are tons of tutorials on the website i linked to ... here is one of them: cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step – avelldiroll Nov 3 '09 at 9:04
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