Data Recovery of windows HDD from Slackware Linux Live
by joenew from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6Q0A5)
A friend has an old windows notebook with corrupted HDD, it doesn't boot from internal HDD. He want to recover some folders/files stored on that drive.
I booted the notebook from an USB key with Liveslak.
Then I tried to mount the windows system partition of the internal hdd, but it failed due to filesystem corruption (not umounted properly or something similar error).
So I executed "ntfsfix", and it seems to fix some problem and mount the file system at leas in read only mode... already enough for data copy to an other drive.
At that point I launched a "du -sh" command to know what the size of data actually is, but I noticed some errors ("input/output error") referred to some files/directories.
Have you any suggest to try getting as more data as possible from that drive?
Thanks a lot in advance!
I booted the notebook from an USB key with Liveslak.
Then I tried to mount the windows system partition of the internal hdd, but it failed due to filesystem corruption (not umounted properly or something similar error).
So I executed "ntfsfix", and it seems to fix some problem and mount the file system at leas in read only mode... already enough for data copy to an other drive.
At that point I launched a "du -sh" command to know what the size of data actually is, but I noticed some errors ("input/output error") referred to some files/directories.
Have you any suggest to try getting as more data as possible from that drive?
Thanks a lot in advance!