Re: NTFS recovery in Linux

--- Michael Figley <michaelfigley@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote:
>
> > jonr@destar.net wrote, on 7/26/2007 12:04 PM:
> > > Quoting Grant Stockly <grant@stockly.com>:
> >
> > >> 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. : )
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > You might also try TestDisk, which I've heard stuff about but haven't
> > tried myself. The wiki page uses italics and bold too much, but it
> > looks pretty good.
> >
> > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> >
> > Royce
>
>
> Puppy is a smallish live distro, includes a graphical mount
> manager "Mut" & NTFS support. Also, I'd try a different
> connection, perhaps direct PATA/SATA just in case...
> NO install required!
>
> Also, on linux ( puppy via package install )
> smartmontools may yield some basic info about
> the drive's state via SMART, if the drive supports.
> ( most do nowadays ) TRK -live includes smartmontools.
>
> Also, in my experience, USB can be unreliable for intensive
> harddrive I/O, such as backups. On both Linux & `Doze
> I've seen perfectly good drives get corrupted. maybe
> a chipset issue?
>
> Thanks for the testdisk link, I'll have to give it a test!
>

Puppy tip, if you go that way - have a USB flash
handy & puppy can store the session, including
any installed packages on it. CTL-ALT-BKSP then
"poweroff" - to get prompt for save options.
So next time you boot from CD with the flash plugged in,
all is as was...

mike

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Received on Thu Jul 26 15:47:12 2007