Soldato
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I have a Dell laptop with a HD that is on it's last legs, and I'm trying to recover some data from the HD.
Now, I can try and boot from the HD, and it gives the option to try and repair the Vista install, choose this option, Vista tries and fails to repair itself.
So, I use the infamous UBCD4Win, built from an XP disk I have. This normally reads NTFS partitions fine, but it cannot read the Vista NTFS partition on this laptop.
Is this because of a strange partition table, or does Vista use a different type of NTFS? Are there any other ways I can access this HD. Would a Linux live CD work?
Now, I can try and boot from the HD, and it gives the option to try and repair the Vista install, choose this option, Vista tries and fails to repair itself.
So, I use the infamous UBCD4Win, built from an XP disk I have. This normally reads NTFS partitions fine, but it cannot read the Vista NTFS partition on this laptop.
Is this because of a strange partition table, or does Vista use a different type of NTFS? Are there any other ways I can access this HD. Would a Linux live CD work?
