Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:13:27 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: I check ntfs-3g ( tool on linux to manage ntfs file system) to fix the error. But ntfs-3g is not a tool aimed to fix NTFS errors. ntfsfix /dev/sdc1 gives the output: mft corrupted ... is there a chance to recover

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Dale wrote: With Debian, ddrescue seems to be the dd_rescue program, with the real ddrescue available as gddrescue. Rather than getting into this long explanation, I went for the package that is almost certainly already installed on whatever live CD he boots from. In Debian there are two

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:22:14 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, Hi... but please, no html posts, thanks. I have a disk ( I tera Bytes it contains important data!!!) formatted with nfts, somebody used it in wind$ a virus seems destroy something in partition table ??? Being a

Re: Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I check ntfs-3g ( tool on linux to manage ntfs file system) to fix the error. ntfsfix /dev/sdc1 gives the output: mft corrupted ... is there a chance to recover something ??? Mounting volume... MFT is corrupt, cannot read its unmapped extent record 280867 Note : chkdsk cannot

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 21. April 2012 schrieb abdelkader belahcene: Hi, I check ntfs-3g ( tool on linux to manage ntfs file system) to fix the error. ntfsfix /dev/sdc1 gives the output: mft corrupted ... is there a chance to recover something ??? Mounting volume... MFT is corrupt,

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/04/12 11:22 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, I have a disk ( I tera Bytes it contains important data!!!) formatted with nfts, somebody used it in wind$ a virus seems destroy something in partition table ??? Now no access is possible, although the partition is recognized as

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread Brad Alexander
The final, and arguably most important thing is to always back up your important data... I know it's a little late in the game, but this is an important lesson to learn for future reference... On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 21/04/12 11:22 AM, abdelkader

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread Bill Harris
Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com writes: On 21/04/12 11:22 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Is there another rescue software ?? Firstly, copy the entire disk to another one of the same or larger size by booting from a live distro such as sysrecuecd and using dd (e.g. dd if=/dev/sda

Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

2012-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/04/12 04:51 PM, Bill Harris wrote: Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com writes: On 21/04/12 11:22 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Is there another rescue software ?? Firstly, copy the entire disk to another one of the same or larger size by booting from a live distro such as sysrecuecd and