Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk
John Hasler wrote:
> KS writes:
>> I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue
>> of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process
>> tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB.
>
> Ok...
>
>> The ISO image generated is about 466GB.
>
> "ISO"? I thought you made an image of a NTFS drive. Where did the ISO
> come from?
>
>> However, when I mount the image using mount -o loop -t iso9660
>> /path/to/image.iso /path/to/mntpt
>
> Why is that not "-t ntfs"?
I tried -t ntfs (with and without errors=recover) and I also tried to
mount the bad HDD but the system couldn't find ntfs boot sector on either.
**without errors=recover ***
NTFS-fs error (device loop1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
NTFS-fs warning (device loop1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot
sector checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device loop1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot
sector is invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device loop1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option
errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
*** with errors=recover***
NTFS-fs error (device loop1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
NTFS-fs warning (device loop1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot
sector checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device loop1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot
sector is invalid.
NTFS-fs warning (device loop1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot
sector checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device loop1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Could not find a
valid backup boot sector.
NTFS-fs error (device loop1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
***bad hdd***
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector
checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector
is invalid.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector
checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Could not find a
valid backup boot sector.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
*badd hdd partition 1***
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot
sector checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot
sector is invalid.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot
sector checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Could not find a
valid backup boot sector.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
I also tried scrounge-ntfs and it tells that the whole disk is a
partition. I think the disk had at least two partitions.
.KS.
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