On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:29:40PM +1000, Bill wrote: > Have an 80gb Seagate HDD formated NTFS (WinXP) that I can no longer access. > Seagates SeaTools says that the extended partition(s) are corrupted. Funny > thing is that I formatted it as only one 80gb NTFS Primary partition. > > Seagate DiscWizard shows an 80.1 gb partition and 3 small FAT16 partitions > which I assume XP uses for Recycle Bin etc. > > Is there anyway to copy the contents of the 80gb partition to another > identical hard drive under Linux (maybe Knoppix)?
Depending on how the disk was corrupted, you might be able to recreate the correct partition table with a bit of dd and a hex editor. If the disk is physically fscked in one way or another (doesn't sound like it, if seatools is reading it OK) then you can dd everything good off the disk onto another identical one, and then proceed to hexedit your way to happiness. Yes, this is OT for the main SLUG list, really, so if you want to contact me off-list, I can give you a few pointers (I went through this same nightmare very recently) on getting things sorted out, or even do the job for you if you want. Reasonable rates. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
