[Wolves] Help - crashed hard disk!!!

Dave Morley davmor2 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 12:27:38 GMT 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:00 +0000, Ron Wellsted wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:39:35AM +0000, Mark Ellse wrote:
> > OS is Windows 2000. FS is NTFS. Have put computer into another machine 
> > with Windows 2000 and it recognises that there is a disk there, but 
> > can't access the disk.
> > 
> 
> This makes it sound like either the partition table is damaged or the
> filesystem itself is VERY badly corrupt (which implies that any data
> recovered must be regarded as suspect).
> 
> You could try ubuntu (reads/writes NTFS no problem), otherwise you
> need to look at a specialist service (Vogon?).  The important thing at
> this stage is not to make matters worse, If you have any doubts, DON'T
> TRY IT!
> 
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If all else fails try gnu ddrescue or try one of many tools available
system rescue cd also the gparted live cd comes with a tool similar to
ghost so you could make an image drop it onto a working harddrive then
use a file extraction tool on that.
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