[quote=ucodegen]Umm.. flu, you should have used Linux to image the drive when you did the ‘upgrade’. This way if it craps out, you can restore the image. Best to do one right before the upgrade and one right after. The Linux imaging tools only backup/archive used blocks and leave the freelist alone.
You can use a CD/DVD based Linux bootable to do it, writing the image to a removable USB drive (or visa versa).[/quote]
The upgrade went fine. After about 4-5 days of use, is where it crapped out. I’ve had failures with windows before, but I’ve never had the auto-recovery actually wipe files out of the same partition beyond the windows folder… So it’s kinda strange to me… My personal files (pix/videos/etc) was on a different folder on the same partition, and it’s gone. I do have a backup of it, it’s just a major pain to restore.
I didn’t have much time to poke around with windows 8/8.1 But something is different about the way it does recovery in NTFS partitions….
I didn’t think I needed to really backup the entire partition since for the most part I rarely use windows and the worst case would be just to reinstall the O/S…. At this point, I booted into linux and just ran DD on the partition to duplicate into another drive…Now I get to run a bunch of undelete tools to see if it recovers anything that might not have been backed up…. I think I lost maybe about 4-5 days of stuff, which might have been my 2013 taxes that I started. Oh well..
I did a little experimentation and I’ve noticed starting with windows 8, after some use, I can’t mount the same partition when I’m booted into linux. And if I run the usual tools from linux to fix the NTFS file system, itcan’t… Then when I boot back into windows, it does attempts to do a disk recovery that ends up messing up the partition. That, or I’m going insane…
Anyway, I’ve decided to run windows8 from inside linux as a virtualized container and not use raw disks as part of that. That way if it effs up again, I can just easily rebuild the container….
I’m sure part of the reason why this is effed up is because I’m in a triple boot environment between OSX, Linux, Windows 8 from a mac mini server that’s running dual SSD’s.
