Re: NTFS Recovery Again

[David]

O.K. I will try to answer all of the above questions. I have not reformated the drive. There was three partitions on the disk. I have tried putting it back to the way that is before and that did not work. I have used fdisk and it will error out but for some strange reason qt parted worked once to rewrite the partition and know it will not write a new table to the harddrive. The disk is shown on a linux bootdisk and from inside a windows machine. Linux says that there are bad superblocks on the drive and windows says that the drive is raw. I don't know exact file names I know what directories that I am looking for if that helps at all I don't know. I have never recovered from a major crash like this before on windows. Go figure I back up all of my *Unix based machines but not the windows computer. How ironic is that.

On 2/15/06, Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

You can use several tools in linux to extract the data if you know what you are looking for... something like foremost (a forensic analysis tool) and possibly the sleuthkit and Autopsy might be able to help for free. Do you remember excatly how the partition table was laid out before? Have you formatted it since the table was lost? If you remember the partition table layout and you have not formatted the drive it could be as simple as using fdisk in linux to re-create the partitions and then mounting the disk (I have seen this done several times with fat32 drives, never tried it with an NTFS partition). If the latter does not work and you know exactly what you are looking for your best bet may be a commercial tool (I think symantec makes one) or the earlier mentioned foremost.

Chris

On 2/15/06, David < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I hate to start another message on this but I have a 60 gig harddrive and the partition table is lost. I need the data off from it. I don't know what to do the drive is formated in the ntfs file system with no encryption. I tried using qtparted to write a new partition table but it didn't work. I don't know what eles to do.

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