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    Lost access to drive?

    Long story short I had lost my linux partition completely. I had tried to edit my MBR back to the windows partition so I could boot into windows and fix my problem from there. I booted in linux and used the one thing everyone that had the same problem I had recommended named ms-sys which restores a MBR to a partition of your choice. The problem was that I think I had done something wrong (Obviously I did..) I actually don't know if this caused my problem but shortly after doing that (Restarting and reinstalling linux on another partition) I lost complete access to my windows partition.
    http://i41.tinypic.com/2uggosm.png

    Its a NTSF partition but in fdisk its showing up as a FAT16
    http://i41.tinypic.com/2hi4egi.png

    If I try to mount it I get this message:
    http://i40.tinypic.com/351afte.png

    I don't care if the partition is bootable but I absolutly need some files off this partition so fdisking right now isn't an option. After I get those files, yea. But I need to get access back to this.

    Any ideas wtf is going on?

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    No one has any information on this? Seriously?

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    I was able to make the drive mountable but its still showing up as FAT16 despite having a NTFS boot signature.

    If I check the make up of the files in testdisk it shows up correctly but mounting the drive shows only a couple files.

    Argh, this is such a pain in the ass.