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On Wednesday 15 February 2006 11:07, you 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.
This may be of little help bec. I mostly work w/ext fs's (and have had to repair
more than my share of HD's); but a quick (& partial) ref to NTFS in my "util
dir" returned this:
find . -name "*" -type f -print | xargs grep NTFS |less
Binary file ./bin/blkid matches
Binary file ./bin/gpart matches
Binary file ./bin/fixdisktable matches
Binary file ./bin/icat matches
Binary file ./bin/ifind matches
Binary file ./bin/ils matches
Binary file ./bin/istat matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.34/misc/mke2fs matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.34/misc/tune2fs matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.34/misc/blkid matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.34/misc/fsck matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.35/bin/debugfs matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.35/bin/e2fsck matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.35/bin/blkid matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.35/bin/fsck matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.35/bin/mke2fs matches
Binary file ./e2fsprogs-1.35/bin/tune2fs matches
Binary file ./ext2read/output/EXT2READ.EXE matches
./ext2read/extread/main.c: return ("NTFS/HPFS ");
./fixdisktable-0.3/fixdisktable.c: * FAT16/FAT32, UFS, and NTFS partitions.
Binary file ./fixdisktable-0.3/fixdisktable.o matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/dcalc matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/dcat matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/dls matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/dstat matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/ffind matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/fls matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/fsstat matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/icat matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/ifind matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/ils matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/istat matches
Binary file ./SleuthKit/bin/mmls matches
Binary file ./util-linux-2.9i/fdisk/fdisk.o matches
Binary file ./util-linux-2.9i/fdisk/fdisk matches
Binary file ./util-linux-2.9i/fdisk/cfdisk.o matches
Binary file ./util-linux-2.9i/fdisk/cfdisk matches
Binary file ./util-linux-2.9i/fdisk/sfdisk.o matches
Binary file ./util-linux-2.9i/fdisk/sfdisk matches
So, it appears that fixdisktable-0.3, Sleuthkit, 2fsprogs-1.35 and
util-linux-2.9i
each understands NTFS and that many of the binaries might successfully operate
on
that munged up drive.
I disclaim to know anything about NTFS, or using linux tools to repair them, but
If the problem is a ruined superblock then I can say that my experience is
having to
determine where the copies of the superblock are kept:
then to run e2fsck -b (some backup superblock) /dev/somedrive
or
mke2fs -b (blocksize) -v -S /dev/somedrive
to re-write the backup superblock table
then you can dumpe2fs to view it
or use e2retrieve -l RESULTS.txt -t /mnt/somedir/ /dev/hdb5
Taking the following date as the reference date to search for superblock and
files:
Thu Feb 1 00:00:00 1990
Scanning for superblocks and directories stubs:
(/dev/hdb5) :
23.15% (0/6/20108 different superblocks, 654 dir. stubs) 00:08:23/00:00:00
!!! Scan interrupted by user !!!
You can restart where it was interrupted by running :
e2retrieve --dumpto=<dir> --resume_scan
to try and recover lost files. I usually got about 70-75% of the drives'
contents
Hope this helps.
Rion
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