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On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:34:26 Mick wrote: |
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> I have tried ntfsfix. |
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That's a new one to me - thanks. |
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> It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted into MSWindows |
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> it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this! |
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The disk in question is an external USB disk. |
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> In your friend's case you can force a chkdsk by right-clicking on the |
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> drive in Windows Explorer/Properties/Tools/Error-checking. |
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The only Windows system I can run at the moment is on my laptop; as soon as |
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I plug the disk in I get a BSoD, so that's no help. On this box (my nice new |
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i5 machine) Gentoo can't cope with USB storage devices at all - Plasma work- |
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space crashes immediately, together with Dolphin and Krunner; so I can't use |
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that either. Ubuntu on the same box can't see the disk when I plug it in. |
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The only Linux I can run that can see the disk is SysRescCd, either on the |
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i5 box or on my laptop. Its ntfsfix said it had run successfully, but I still |
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get the BSoD in WinXP, and ntfsck encounters problems it can't fix. |
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> Other than that I think we're into a file recovery mode involving tools |
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> like photorec and dd_rescue. |
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Photorec is what I've used to extract a few thousand files - the ones I |
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mentioned with the unhelpful names. Maybe dd_rescue will help. Otherwise |
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I'll give the disk back together with the rescued files and tell the lad to |
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format it VFAT. |
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> HTH. |
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Indeed. Thanks again, Mick. |
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