Another option, depending on how much room you have on the server, you could try using ntfsclone with the --rescue option.
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html Steven Blanchard On 1/6/06, Carl Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i agree, try rsync. > > On 1/6/06, David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > sorry I don't have an answer, but have you tried using rsync to see > > what it does? > > > > > > On 1/6/06, Mark Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am recovering data from a crashed windows drive formatted with > > ntfs. I > > > have the drive in an external enclosure and it is connected at > > > /media/usbdisk. There are all kinds of bad sectors and messed up files > > on > > > this drive and I have been getting data from it for the past few days > > but I > > > have run into a strange situation when copying files and I wanted to see > > if > > > anyone had heard of this before... > > > > > > I've connected the external drive to my laptop and scp'd files over to > > my > > > server and I've connected the drive straight to my server and just cp'd > > the > > > files. Everything seemed to be working until I tried to copy a large > > > (~30GB) directory over. Unlike the other stuff I have copied from the > > drive > > > this is a directory of directories of directories of files. The other > > things > > > I copied had no subdir's. I did scp -r to get all of the subdirectories > > but > > > it only copied maybe 5 out of 60. I thought it may have been because I > > was > > > scp'ing over a wireless laptop connection and it might be timing out so > > I > > > connected directly to the server and got the same result. The strange > > part > > > is that I can cd directly to these subdir's and cp the files manually. > > > > > > Does anyone have any idea why cp would only get some subdir's and not > > > others? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mark. > > > -- > > > TriLUG mailing list : > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > > > > -- > Carl Crider > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
