[GRLUG] Accessing hosed ntfs partition

[Patrick Goupell]

Get a copy of puppy linux and try that.

It should provide automounting all of the /dev/sdax partitions and you 
can then copy what need from it to somewhere else.

I  think sda3 is the partition that contains the recovery programs when 
you hit the F10 / F11/F? whatever key it is.for HP computers.

If that does not work and you definitely need some data off of the disk 
do NOT try to do anything else.

There are plenty of free software data recovery live cd's available, let 
me know what you need and I can recommend something..

On 04/26/2013 12:24 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Trying to recover files from a laptop for a frend, ..
>
> fdisk -l shows three partitions, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2,&  /dev/sda3. sda2
> is the HP recovery partition (can be mounted), sda3 is a tiny boot
> partition, and sda1 is the main filesystem.
>
> Trying to mount it (ntfs-3g) returns "No such file or directory", ..
> ntfsfix reports "failed to startup volume" as does ntfsinfo.
>
> Have never seen a partition that could not be accessed with ntfs toold,
> does anyone have any suggestions for retrieving files?
>
> 	Thanks!
> 	Lee
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