recover WinXP ntfs hd from Linux
- From: "dryfly" <dr1fly@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Feb 2006 16:11:10 -0800
A friend had his notebook hard drive "crash" recently. The machine
would not boot and since it was still under warranty he was able to get
it replaced. The vendor claimed the drive was junk. I assume they at
least tried to recover the MBR.
He gave me the "crashed" drive and I tried to recover the data using a
USB adapter and several Windows tools. No luck. WinXP would not
recognise the drive. Any attempt at viewing a directory would hang the
XP on any machine I used. The drive light would flash green then red
and just die.
Then I mounted it (as -t ntfs) on my Linux box using the same USB
adapter and VOILA! a directory. Granted, I could only navigate the
drive as root, but it seems I can recover his files. Does anyone know
what could be awry with this drive to make it so unreadable in XP, but
very easily readable under Linux? Is there a way to repair this drive
to make it readable, not necessarily bootable, in XP by messing with
the partition type or something?
.
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