[TriLUG] NTFS corrupted partition recovery????

[John Broome]

On 9/11/07, J.C. Jones <jonesjc at intrex.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> A large NTFS file partition ( 84gb ) has become corrupted. Spinrite sees
> it as an NTFS or HPFS (??) partition and gladly processes it, but no
> change. Ubuntu sees it as an NTFS or HPFS ( ?? ), but will not mount it.
> Says it is corrupted to use chkdsk to recover. Chkdisk says it is a RAW
> file and will not work on it. Winxp says it needs formatting.

I ran into the same issue on a client machine.  knoppix wouldn't mount
it, said it had shut down uncleanly and needed a chkdsk /r.

I made a windows live CD with bart PE and was able to clean up the
drive enough for knoppix to rsync the stuff off.

Or, if you're more patient than I, you can copy it off from the PE livecd.