Knoppix to recover data from corrupt ntfs

ByteJuggler · 28 Sep 2007 at 01:59

Sherm said:
I am going to try it on my Dell machine at work tomorrow, i did not get a chance wednesday. If this is my machine then the dell should be simpler for it.....worth a try.

If not then do you have a link for me to download anothe version (don't have any torrent software whilst machine is down).

thanks

Hopefully it works better yes. TRK is available here.

Sherm · 28 Sep 2007 at 15:59

yes! i can see my drive on the dell. Prob is how do i copy from the drive to the usb key? From the drive i can see the files that i need and i can right click and select copy, but when i right clcik on the usb key i do not have a past option.....I checked the permissions for that usb and made them all read & write.

So close!

Sherm · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:44

Found out how to do it and i have the files on a usb key. Will have to format the drive to FAT now, but will do that once i have made sure thats all the info i need off.

Will let you know when i have succesfully got the files onto my new system.

Meanwhile thanks so much for you help bytejuggler, digital can off beer for ya !!!

ByteJuggler · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:57

Sherm said:
Found out how to do it and i have the files on a usb key. Will have to format the drive to FAT now, but will do that once i have made sure thats all the info i need off.

Will let you know when i have succesfully got the files onto my new system.

Meanwhile thanks so much for you help bytejuggler, digital can off beer for ya !!!

Thanks for the beer!

As for formatting to FAT, you don't need to do that unless you want to actually put everything back onto the original disk as was.

I'm under the impression you're just saving your email and some other user data onto the USB key to transfer to your already installed new installation on another disk?

If so, you can simply delete the dodgy partition using e.g. Linux's partition tools after which you can put the drive back in your PC and format etc under your new Windows installation. I cant remember offhand what Knoppix includes, but I think QTPartEd is one of the GUI based partition editors that are included if you want to use that. Otherwise you can also use one of the text based ones (e.g. "cfdisk") which you can access by simply opening a Text Terminal as before, and entering the command "cfdisk" at the prompt. It has a pretty simple/straighforward interface as well.