Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > 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.
Have you tried ddrescue (the Gnu version) rather than dd_rescue? I've also had success with GetDataBack (not open source) from http://www.runtime.org/ in the past. > > 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 > Retrodata (http://www.retrodata.co.uk/index.php) are local, reasonably priced, and work on a "no data, no fee" basis. I've had dealings with them once and they seemed to know what they were doing. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------
