2009/1/3 sara fink <sara.f...@gmail.com>: > One thing that comes to mind is to do the following: > > boot with a knoppix or other livecd. ntfs will be mounted. Some of the disk > will be readable. In such case you can backup on other disk. > > after that boot windows with a recovery disk if you have.
I already tried to use SysRescueCD 1.0 and Ubuntu live cd in rescue mode to no avail. I connected the IDE drive via a clunky IDE->USB external enclosure borrowed from a computer shop which read lots of data (with many errors) until around 137Gb then stopped. I later read in Wikipedia that 137Gb is the limit of pre-ATA-6 controllers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment#Drive_size_limitations) so maybe I hit that limit and have to find another external USB enclosure (the disk is 200Gb) In the meantime, I also ran testdisk on the created image which identified some partitions but said it can't recover any of them - at least one of the partitions is larger than the "disk". It all sits right with not having the full drive imaged (137Gb instead of expected 200Gb). I also ran photorec on the recovered image which extracted tons of files but so far I haven't identified the ones I'm interested in - photorec doesn't restore file names. BTW - is there a smart way to identify specifically compressed tar files? Photorec gives them all ".gz" extension and "file" by itself doesn't look into the .gz content to tell me the format inside it. I'd rather avoid re-inventing this wheel if possible. Thanks, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il
