Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk
Jochen Schulz wrote:
> KS:
>> root@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660
>
> Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the
> subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am
> surprised that this actually works.
I tried with ntfs flag too and it doesn't mount anything. Rather gives
errors. See my other reply in the thread.
>> /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/cdrom
>> root@sysresccd /root % ls /mnt/cdrom
>> 〰〹 䝎䑒噌慮?湩㬱
>
> Do you expect this kind of characters or is it just "garbage" (from your
> point if view)?
Yes, it is garbage.
>> Any advice on how to proceed from here? Or can someone suggest a better
>> method?
>
> It depends on what you want to achieve. If all you want is to rescue
> personal documents, images and the like, I suggest you to try photorec
> from the testdisk package. It can recover many files of different types
> from otherwise unusable filesystems.
>
> J.
The person has lots of photos, movies, and software backups on the drive.
/KS
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