On 4/14/05, jordan bishko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I was recently trying to format a brand new hard drive in an external > enclosure and mistakenly began to reformat the internal boot drive (I know, > stupid mistake). The reformatting process lasted about 5-10 seconds and the > screen went black. I cannot mount the drive (NTFS) on a Windows or OS X > machine. I am in need of getting a specific file folder off the drive > (everything else was backed up). I was curious if anyone has the Linux > Kernel allowing them to read a NTFS drive to get a file folder off it. The > drive currently resides in an external USB enclosure. I would of course be > willing to pay someone for their time if they could help. Any takers? > Thank you --
If you reformatted the disk having the linux ntfs drivers is not going to be sufficient since the NTFS drivers are not going to work without a partition table. It needs to be dealt with on the level of disk recovery and extraction using something like http://sleuthkit.sourceforge.net/sleuthkit/desc.php to find the old partition boundaries, scan for the Folder location and extract the files. It's not easy and you aren't assured of success, I suspect that a professional data recovery shop would be able to do it much more quickly than someone who would need to figure it out. Since the disk isn't physically damaged chances are your data is probably recoverable, the question becomes how much is it worth to you. -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
