It's a sad tale... and cautionary.... people, this is why we take backups...
Anyway - I need to recover a bunch of critical files from an NTFS partition on a disk which has been damaged by being dropped. The disk in question was set up as a dual boot, and I was able to boot into her Linux system, but it's painfully slow, and there are lots of error messages indicating that the disk is damaged. I can't boot into windows. I can't mount the partition. I've tried running ntfsfix, and I've tried using the windows recovery console on the windows CD, and while I have been able to run chkdsk, after it completes I still can't mount it, and Windows claims to be missing a vital file, and won't boot. I've tried using dd_rescue to image the disk, but it ran for a whole day and only managed 2G of data. What next? Money isn't really an issue - the data needs to be recovered. Can anyone recommend a specialist who might, for example, remove the platter, or extract data electrostatically? Any other suggestions? Thanks guys, S -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------