Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

[sean]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> sean wrote:
>> I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just
>> crashed.
>>
>> I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to
>> mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her.
>>
>> Not having much luck, would anyone have any tips as to how I might be
>> able to make this happen?
>
> What happened when you tried to mount it (and is it formatted NTFS or
> FATXX)?
>
> If the disk has real errors (i.e bad sectors as opposed to
> software/windows problems), then app-forensics/autopsy might get the
> important user data off.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark

Tried to mount it as NTFS.

Not familiar with this software, will have to check it out.

		Thanks
		Sean
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