Re: recover WinXP ntfs hd from Linux
- From: "prg" <rdgentry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Feb 2006 07:39:18 -0800
dryfly wrote:
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.
If it was in warranty, most likely they only did a "full" (forget the
term) S.M.A.R.T test. This is the same test that some manufacturers
require for RMAs. If it failed or looked near failure they simply
replaced it.
Very unlikely that they they tried to mount it or boot from it. They
are not in the data recovery business.
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?
Hard to know what XP might check/double check to mount the drive. Nor
do I recall offhand the differences between how XP accesses the drive
compared to Linux kernel/ntfs driver.
First collect as much data off the drive as possible, ASAP.
You could use something like parted or QTparted to look at the
partition tables or sfdisk if you're comfortable with that.
Double check the recovered data. What's missing?
Get the _maker's_ hard disk diagnostic utility for for thorough testing
and possible disk recovery. Try here:
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/hd/diag.htm
Note that some "recovery" techniques are "destructive". The thorough
test may also show eminent failure just below the pass/fail threshold
used for the "gross" test/report used for end user notification. To
decipher what the tests may reveal try here (as well as a wealth of
info re. S.M.A.R.T):
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
In the end, if I were you, I would be _very_ reluctant to depend on
that disk for anything more than experimenting. Maybe you could really
break it with hdparm :-)
good luck,
prg
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