[Gllug] NTFS from Ubuntu

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Fri, June 13, 2008 18:02, Peter Ball wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got a laptop with a apparent physical damage on the XP NTFS partition
> on the hd.
>
> Using a Ubuntu 7.04 boot cd I can see the hd and the network and I managed
> to copy the
> recovery partition which is Fat32 to my server.
>
> I would like to recover what user data is still on the NTFS partition  but
> when I try to mount
> The NTFS partition I get:
>
> Unable to mount volume:
> mount: wrong fs type. bad option. bad superblock on /dev/hda2. missing
> codepage or other
> error.
>
> I'm not sure if this is because of the damage to the partition or because
> Ubuntu doesn't
> understand NTFS .
>
> Can anyone give me some useful suggestions :-)
>
> Thanks
> -----------------------------------
> Peter Ball
> peter.ball at marguet-ball.net
>
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Why not just use dd and copy the entire contents of the disk ?

Gabriel.


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