So do ensure you back up the data *before* touching it. You can use ntfs-3g from a live cd environment (ubuntu etc.) to recover the data. Side note: you may may not want to use the recovery partition, as it might include extra software from the vendor.
2009/10/31 Ben Donohue <[email protected]>: > Hi Kevin, > > Usually the recovery partition is accessed by pressing F12, or F11 or > whatever. > This usually overwrites the system completely. You will lose forever the > data on the partition that it overwrites. > Better to pull the disk out and connect it as a slave to another PC. Recover > the data. Then access the recovery partition to overwrite the disk back to > the day it was purchased. > > Ben > > > Kevin Shackleton wrote: >> >> I have someone's PC with a fairly corrupt Windows setup - drops to BSOD >> after just a few seconds. BSOD does not stay up long enough to read. >> System runs fine with Ubuntu live boot (I initially suspected a hardware >> problem like the power supply or CPU cooling). >> >> Of course these poor mortals didn't create a system setup / recovery DVD >> with their new machine. And I don't see them as handling anything but >> XP. The good news though is that using the live CD I see it there's a 6 >> GB sda1 FAT32 partition with the 'hidden' flag set. The contents of >> this partition seem to be exactly a Windows setup DVD of 3.70 GB. >> >> Question is - what do I do to recover the setup partition? A couple of >> options are to either set up the partition as not-hidden and bootable, >> and set up a boot loader so I can pick this partition to boot from, or >> else to write the contents of this partition to a bootable DVD, even >> though there's presently a live CD in the optical drive. (I could make a >> USB 'live CD'). >> >> I looked in the sda2 ntfs volume and could not see a Windows utility to >> do this job. It's a NEC Powermate. Thre is a NEC Utilities folder but >> it's empty. >> >> (of course having access to the recovery option in Windows is no >> assurance of achieving a stable system some time in the future!) >> >> I've done a bit of googling for some hints without success. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kevin. >> >> > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
