Reading NTFS

[Greg Booth]

On 11/6/07, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Billie Walsh wrote:
> > On 11/04/2007 Scott wrote:
> >
> >> You can find instructions here:
> >> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/mountNTFSreadonly?highlight=%28ntfs%29
> >>
> >
> > That wasn't exactly sent to my question but it sure did the trick. Thank
> > you.
> >
> > However I do have a question about it. Will this carry over if I reboot?
> > [ well maybe two questions ] If not how can I make it so it does do it
> > automatically on boot up?
> >
> >
> Yes, I tried that command and it still can't read hdb1.
> Thanks for your help.
>
Sounds like a corrupted hard drive. Sounds strange coming from a linux
mailing list but have you tried mounting it behind another XP install
and using some of the advanced hard drive data recovery tools on it ?
I use

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

To recover files from my USB drive when it frags itself ( happened twice now )

It's freeware, if not open source, but it works and recovered about
two months worth of work. Wish there was a linux opensource tool that
worked as well as it does.

Greg