Re: Recovery of Win files from Linux partition?
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Date: 11/14/04
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:02:53 GMT
On 13 Nov 2004 02:42:35 -0800, bibinix@gmx.net (Paolo) wrote:
>mjt <mjtobler@removethis_mail.ru> wrote in message news:<2vigddF2kt9l2U1@uni-berlin.de>...
>> Paolo wrote:
>>
>> > I would like to know if
>> > there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
>> > Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
>> > the win partition???
>>
>> ... i've had a co-worker experience this with his laptop
>> recently, as we installed Linux to this box and experienced
>> the "2.6 kernel/mbr/xp/mismatch" issue.
>>
>> first off, a bit of analysis:
>> * what did you do, exactly - might provide
>> some step-by-step info
>
>Hard to say because I mounted a new hdd and installed Knoppix, I was
>playing around with qtparted and someting happened.....
>
>> * what have you done so far to recover? sometimes
>> you can do more damage in a desperate attempt to
>> recover.
>
>Absolutely right!!!!!
>
>> here's what i would do:
>> * download and burn knoppix and boot it from the CD
>> and see if you can mount and view the files on
>> the winders side. device icons will be on the
>> desktop for all partitions found
>
>Done this! I have a a Win Me partition (not working) a Suse and
>Knoppix working on the PC.
>I can write, read and save files in the Win Me partition from the
>Linuxes. What I want is to recover TWO (erased by mistake) WORD FILES
>from the Win Me. Thus my question: does a Norton Unerase exist tha can
>do that?
>
>
>> * open a console and do a "fdisk -l /dev/hda > fdisk.txt"
>> to save off the current layout
>> * then do a, "dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1"
>> this saves off a current image of the MBR to the file
>> named "mbr.img" (i "save" this off to my gmail account
>> as a 'save draft' ... be sure to save off the ouput
>> from the previous fdisk step).
>> * this step depends how much you know about partitions,
>> filesystems, MBR entries, etc. from here, it's
>> grunt work. you need to dig around and see if you can
>> get at the data.
>>
>> you could save off the partition with 'www.partimage.org'.
>> at worse, if you cant see or access the data, you're only
>> chance of recovery would be the ontrack easyrecover tool.
I saw in a binary newsgroup something posted about 2 weeks ago called
recover fat and recover NTFS you might do a search for that in
GOOGLE and see what happens. but if you really want to recover stop
using that drive, and it's probably too late already
ALWAYS BACK UP WHEN INSTALLING MUTULTIPLT OS'S
parted has re-reminded me of that with Suse 9.1
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