Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:54:49 -0500
"Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info> 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 The backup files are a year out of date.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?
>
My recommendation would be to boot Knoppix from a live DVD (it really
is a live-only distribution, it isn't maintainable). I recovered all
but about 35 files from a Vista installation on a laptop which had been
dropped, and the drive had hard errors, presumably where the heads
bounced.
Lenny is *the* server distribution, but it isn't especially up-to-date,
and NTFS is a moving target.
--
Joe
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