Re: NTFS recovery in Linux

Quoting Grant Stockly <grant@stockly.com>:

> I have a 2.5" hard drive from a laptop. The laptop was in a never ending
> ntfs.sys crash/reboot cycle. About 5-10 seconds after the windows XP blue
> scrolling bar came up is where it would crash.
>
> When I plug the hard drive into a USB box and then plug it into my Windows
> XP workstation it instantly crashes and reboots my computer. I have never
> used NTFS file systems or USB under Linux. I would have to install a new
> modern linux on a computer here.
>
> Is this worth my time? Is there a chance Linux might be able to help me
> recover the data? I have RedHat 4.1, so maybe its time to upgrade. : )
>
Hi Grant,

Why don't you give knoppix a try and see if you can't recover your
data from there. There are other LiveCDs out there you could also try
that are probably smaller but knoppix will mount the drives
automagically for you.

Jon

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Received on Thu Jul 26 12:05:00 2007