[Tfug] Can y'all stand a *windows* question? (Sorry...)

[Jeffry Johnston]

First, a suggestion:  If you have another drive large enough, use a
Linux live cd and dd (or dd_rescue if the drive is failing) to copy
his entire hd (/dev/hda or /dev/sda) to a file on your drive.  That
way if an attempted recovery goes bad, you can restore everything and
try again with a different tool or option.

In Ubuntu I see an ntfsprogs package which contains this program:
ntfsfix - Fix common filesystem errors and force Windows to check NTFS.
Never tried it.

Jeff

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't for me, it's for a seriously non-techie friend in California.
> He's got a large NTFS-formatted drive with tons of pictures on it, and
> Windows has managed to thoroughly scramble his file allocation table -
> filenames and directories are gobblygook-named, and not accessible.
>
> Western Digital says most decent recovery programs can sort this out, but
> when I google something like:
>
> windows data recovery
>
> ...I get tons of hits, many of 'em obvious scams.  And since I haven't had
> to deal with anything like this for years now :) I have no idea what's
> decent.  He's willing to pay for something that works...
>
> Help?
>
> Jim
>
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