Windows

[Hodgins Family]

Good evening!

> Actually I was talking about the idiot at my workplace who didn't backup 
> the
> 300GB of files that I had to recover from that NTFS partition in my 
> previous
> example.

Owww! Ouch! Ooooh! Lots of RFS at this end (RFS=red faced shame).

> Sorry if this caused any confusion.

Stuart, "this" DID confuse me (and I think Tommy as well). Thank you for the 
clarification and I'm sorry for my (obviously premature) rebuke.

If we can get back to Tommy's issue, you wrote:

> I can qualify that a bit better on the NTFS part. I had a corrupted NTFS 
> filesystem (Approx 300GB of data on a 500GB disk that was getting errors) 
> and using > Ubuntu (Hoary) I managed to copy off all the data that was 
> even remotely possible to read, without much trouble (terminal/shell and 
> using cp no less).

So, you could get to files on an NTFS filesystem using Hoary. I can get to 
files on an NTFS filesystem using Warty Live CD. I don't know what Tommy is 
using but whatever Live CD he is using,  he can't get to his files on the XP 
file system. If he can't see his files, he can't copy them to other media.

I suggest that Tommy do any/all of the following:
i) find out if the files on the Win XP box were in a "Shared" Folder. If so, 
he might be able to network his Ubuntu box to the Win XP box and use samba 
to pull the Win XP files to his Ubuntu box, OR
i) find and burn a Live CD (there must be > 100 out there) that let's him 
get to the files on the XP drive, then copy to CD or USB, etc. OR
ii) transplant the XP drive into his Ubuntu box and see what that computer 
can do (this might actually take less time to do than downloading and 
burning an iso.)

Tommy, please let us know what you are planning to do and/or what happened 
after you did it. You might find it useful to check out the archives of this 
(and other) mailing lists at Ubuntu and even at Debian. I know that many 
folks have had success doing various "rescue operations" with XP drives 
using the Knoppix Live CD.

Rob