[TriLUG] NTFS corrupted partition recovery????

[J.C. Jones]

Glenn,

I found boot-it ng and will be working with it later tonight.

Thanks

jcj

Glenn Starling wrote:

>I use Boot-It NG as a self-booting CD in my repair bag of tricks.  The
>latest version is downloadable.  It does quite a few things, but it
>contains a repair utility.  I first got it years ago when my Partition
>Magic utility disk was at my house and I was at a customer site.  I have
>had limited success with it.  Sometimes it works, but unless it is the
>first utility used to attempt repair it often doesn't solve the problem.
>However, if anything can solve it, Boot-It has a pretty good track
>record.  I don't remember the URL.  (It is a free download.)  If you
>can't Google it, let me know and I'll try to come up with a download
>URL.
>
>Good luck!
>
>-- Glenn
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>On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:45 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:30, J.C. Jones wrote:
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>>>All,
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>>>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???
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>>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
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>>Steve Litt
>>Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
>>http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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