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 friend's case you can force a chkdsk by right-clicking on the > drive in Windows Explorer/Properties/Tools/Error-checking. The only Windows system I can run at the moment is on my laptop; as soon as I plug the disk in I get a BSoD, so that's no help. On this box (my nice new i5 machine) Gentoo can't cope with USB storage devices at all - Plasma work- space crashes immediately, together with Dolphin and Krunner; so I can't use that either. Ubuntu on the same box can't see the disk when I plug it in. The only Linux I can run that can see the disk is SysRescCd, either on the i5 box or on my laptop. Its ntfsfix said it had run successfully, but I still get the BSoD in WinXP, and ntfsck encounters problems it can't fix. > 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. Maybe dd_rescue will help. Otherwise I'll give the disk back together with the rescued files and tell the lad to format it VFAT. > HTH. Indeed. Thanks again, Mick.
