failure to mount corrupted drive

[Karl F. Larsen]

Steve Reilly wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> 
> trying to recover data for a friend off an ntfs drive.  well, fdisk
> reports it as ntfs anyway.  booted a gparted cd and it reported it as
> unknown.

	If gparted can't tell you what it is, it must be bad or very 
unknown. I do not trust fdisk to define the file system.


> 
> mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk -o force
> 
> with this command im getting an error says this doesnt seem to have a
> valid ntfs?  i thought force, meant FORCE, how can i mount this drive to
> get pictures off it?  using 9.04 live cd at the moment...., but have
> tried no less than a dozen others, none have automounted this drive.
> 
	Well two tools proved it is not a ntfs file system. How many 
partitions are on this hard drive?


73 Karl


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