Disk recovery needed!

Chris Norman cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk
Tue Dec 6 15:56:49 UTC 2005


Great stuff, cheers.

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Warren Sturm
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:41 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Disk recovery needed!

You may want to look at what SalvageNTFS
(http://www.salvagentfs.com/1.0.html) can do for you.  I ended up buying
r-t-tools to salvage my daughters system after the MFT got trashed on
all 3 of the partitions on the disk.  I had not found SalvageNTFS at
that point.

On Tue, 2005-06-12 at 07:33 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Chris Norman wrote:
> 
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I have just recently done one of the stupidest things of my life...
I
> > had a job mounting an NTFS file system, so I thought I'd try and
make it
> > ext2 to use it under Linux.
> >
> >
> >
> > It now has no file allocation table at all, and my 17.5 Gb of music
> > somewhere on it.
> >
> >
> >
> > How can I recover it please?
> 
> Your best chance is using a commercial file recovery program.
> 
> You are going to have to try something like
http://www.stellarinfo.com/ 
> (not a recommendation - just a random site that came up when I
searched 
> for NTFS disk recovery on Google) and keep your fingers crossed.
> 
> -- 
> Benjamin Franz
> 
> The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the
implementation.
> 
>                                                           - Donald E.
Knuth
> 




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