Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?
On Sunday 28 November 2010 14:54:49 Thomas H. George wrote:
> Situation: My daughter works for a bank and must use Microsoft to work
> at home. Yesterday the system would not boot - no safe mode, no
> nothing, just return to loading bios.
>
> The machine is an HP desktop which came preloaded with Windows XP
> Professional. As instructed we made a recovery disk and some backup
> files. I now find the recovery disk will only wipe the hard drive clean
> and reinstall XP. The backup files are a year out of date.
>
> At the time she bought the machine I installed a second hard drive,
> installed Lenny and configured mbr for dual boot.
>
> Yesterday I edited fstab to include a mount point for the Windows
> primary partition setting the file type to auto and was able to mount
> the partition and read files.
>
> Hoping to save the recent information I tried rsync -vr /c /c_bkup.
> This didn't work, many messages about incorrect nodes.
>
> Is there any chance of recovering usable files before we wipe out her
> hard drive?
>
> Tom
I am not an expert on recovery, but I would get an other Hd and make a copy of
her W hard drive using dd, then work on the copy.
Then <tag: week-end> tell your daughter not to work for banks, they keep
screwing us up, and tell her not to work home on week-end, it's a bad habit
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Thierry
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