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NTFS Disk Recovery
Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk errors and tries unsuccessfully to repair them. |
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I always like how the Linux rescue tools for Windows are way better than the Windows tools.
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Yeah.
A few weeks ago my brother's computer developed a problem on its NTFS partition. Upon boot, it would start chkdsk and go into an infinite loop trying to do something with one inode. This was not a system partition, so canceling the check allowed Windows to start, but the partition was totally inaccessible. So my family members forced me to fix it. I took the drive out, attached it to my computer, installed ntfs-3g and attempted to mount it, expecting a long session in fsck or the like.
I was disappointed.
It mounted the partition without complaining. With all the data intact.
A few weeks ago my brother's computer developed a problem on its NTFS partition. Upon boot, it would start chkdsk and go into an infinite loop trying to do something with one inode. This was not a system partition, so canceling the check allowed Windows to start, but the partition was totally inaccessible. So my family members forced me to fix it. I took the drive out, attached it to my computer, installed ntfs-3g and attempted to mount it, expecting a long session in fsck or the like.
I was disappointed.
It mounted the partition without complaining. With all the data intact.
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