[TriLUG] NTFS corrupted partition recovery????

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:30, J.C. Jones 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 have found an application called "Getdataback" that appears to recover
> the files, but to save the files they want 80 dollars for registration.
> Anyone know of an open source application that will recover the files
> and/or partition structure???

If this utility really works, and if you have valuable data on the partition, 
$80.00 is a cheap price to get your data back.

StveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/