Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
well, the drive may be ntfs but the files written were jpg written from a linux machine h. I guess it should be able to read from windows seeing as it us a JPG and not some exotic open source file:!) I guess it just got corrupted. The question still remains, is there a way to recover the fi

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 8:59 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > well, the drive may be ntfs but the files written were jpg written from a > linux machine h. I guess it should be able to read from windows > seeing as it us a JPG and not some exotic open

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Thanks for trying! On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 12:53 PM Arun Khan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 8:59 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> well, the drive may be ntfs but the files written were jpg written from a >> linux machine h. I guess it sh

Re: chromebook and libreoffice

2024-06-11 Thread Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss
On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > no I'm not. my wife needed to open an excel spreadsheet and she was unable > to on her chromebook. I opened it with libre office and wanted to put it on > her chromebook. > > On Thu, May 30, 2024 a

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
You could always use disk drill. I use that for any supported filesystem I have here (including NTFS, EXFat, HPFS (many of thee BSD’s use this), OS X journaled FS and many more. It can recover, under limited circumstances even a partition table. -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
thank yuou. looks interesting. So they say there is a linux version but when I go to download it only the apple version shows. What's the deal? On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 6:53 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > You could always use disk drill. I use that for a

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
my mistake need to reADWHAT IT SAYS! On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 7:46 AM Michael wrote: > thank yuou. looks interesting. So they say there is a linux version but > when I go to download it only the apple version shows. What's the deal? > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 6:53 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-disc

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
okay. I put it on windows and I'm running it now. wishme luck! is there any point in taking it to someone and paying them to recover anything else? On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 7:51 AM Michael wrote: > my mistake need to reADWHAT IT SAYS! > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 7:46 AM Michael wrote: > >> t

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
h. Not sure why that would happen. I might have to put in an email to my contact there and see what’s up. Eric From The Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Recovery Dept. > On Jun 11, 2024, at 4:46 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > > thank yuou. looks interesting. So they say

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Well, If it’s something that disk drill can’t handle, you might have to. Also, you might want to check into replacement HDD hardware cards that can get you back into operation. If that turns out to be the case, once you have replacement hardware electronics then you should be able to back up dat

Re: is there any way to fix this drive?

2024-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss
Hmm.  I could have sworn that the NTFS utilities in Linux had a chkdsk function.  Yeah: ntfsfix (8)  - fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS (found using 'man -k ntfs') Man page for ntfsfix says, in part: DESCRIPTION    ntfsfix  is  a utility that fixes some common N