Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 January 2010 12:00:40 Adam wrote: The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options). Looks like audiotag can do that Hm. Its website

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:51:20 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options). Looks like audiotag can do that

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 11 January 2010 13:27:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:51:20 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them (Goggle will most likely turn

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:15:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: So it is. Looks like 11:51 is still too early in the morning. If it's morning, it's too early :) -- Neil Bothwick WYTYSYDG - What you thought you saw, you didn't get. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-10 Thread Adam
The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options). Looks like audiotag can do that, here's a snip of the help; --rename-filesrename

[gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer once too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as off-line and inaccessible by his WinXP system. I'm trying to recover his data for him, which is mostly music files. Does anyone here know

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 January 2010 11:48:35 Peter Humphrey wrote: Does anyone here know of a tool that can rebuild an NTFS directory structure? I've tried several tools I found with Google, but the only one that had any success has extracted hundreds of small text files and lots of mp3 and other

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:34:26 Mick wrote: I have tried ntfsfix. That's a new one to me - thanks. It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted into MSWindows it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this! The disk in question is an external USB disk. In your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jan 2010, at 16:49, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:34:26 Mick wrote: ... It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted into MSWindows it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this! The disk in question is an external USB disk. In your

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:49:50 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: Other than that I think we're into a file recovery mode involving tools like photorec and dd_rescue. Photorec is what I've used to extract a few thousand files - the ones I mentioned with the unhelpful names. The MP3 files

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:27:37 Stroller wrote: I _believe_ that if you leave the USB drive, with the corrupt filesystem, plugged in when the laptop boots, then during the boot process the `chkdsk` will be performed. Unfortunately not. I was hoping so too, but when I tried it I got the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:47:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options). That's a good idea - thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Rebuilding an NTFS directory structure

2010-01-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jan 2010, at 22:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... However you might use this as a backup image of your starting point, to give you multiple chances at repairing the fs using different approaches. Now I'm running out of space to store the data in. Invest in storage. Doing so will make