NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread Graeme Dargie
Hi All, I have been given a laptop to look at for a friend, the hard disk is close to death with a SMART error on POST. My initial thought was to just mount it on an Windows 7 machine and grab what I can from the drive. No joy Windows insists that the partition is RAW and I need to format it.

Re: NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:01:56 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hi All, I have been given a laptop to look at for a friend, the hard disk is close to death with a SMART error on POST. My initial thought was to just mount it on an Windows 7 machine and grab what I can from the drive. Bad idea. You

Re: NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 18:54:37 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:01:56 +, Graeme Dargie wrote: Hi All, I have been given a laptop to look at for a friend, the hard disk is close to death with a SMART error on POST. My initial thought was to just mount it on an

Re: NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread jb
Graeme Dargie arab at tangerine-army.co.uk writes: ... Is there a way to scan the drive for deleted files from the command line or something from the ports tree that anyone can recommend to fulfil this requirement. testdisk

Re: NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... ntfs utilities http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs/pkg-descr I would suggest you compile it before use (otherwise grab a package). jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have been given a laptop to look at for a friend, the hard disk is close to death with a SMART error on POST. My initial thought was to just mount it on an Windows 7 machine and grab what I can from the drive. No joy Windows insists that the partition is RAW and I need to format it. I can