> The Windows disk that I thought had merely lost its
> MBR is apparently worse than that. Any free or almost
> free utils that can run on Kubuntu and recover files
> from a corrupted NTFS drive?
>
> I can mount the drive, but then an 'ls' gets an
> I/O error. Or did I mount it wrong? I used
>
> mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /NTFS
>
> with that drive as slave. With an ext3 drive as
> slave, the same command (except for type) worked.
>

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:31:03 +0000, Wes Groleau wrote:
Try using ntfs-3g instead of the default ntfs drivers with ubuntu. Likely
to have significantly better luck with anything you do w/ regards to ntfs.

Craig wrote:
> Try using ntfs-3g instead of the default ntfs drivers with ubuntu. Likely
> to have significantly better luck with anything you do w/ regards to ntfs.

Well, I am sure the drive format is hosed.
How badly, I'm not sure, but it won't boot,
and another WinXP that does boot can't read it.

--
Wes Groleau
----
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated
than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Wes Groleau wrote:
> Craig wrote:
>> Try using ntfs-3g instead of the default ntfs drivers with ubuntu.
>> Likely
>> to have significantly better luck with anything you do w/ regards to
>> ntfs.
>
> Well, I am sure the drive format is hosed.
> How badly, I'm not sure, but it won't boot,
> and another WinXP that does boot can't read it.
>

Have a look at testdisk it's in the repo's.

Don't forget to RTM.

Ram.