help with the recovery of a head crash with a MS ntfs file system.

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 02:41:37 UTC 2010


>> Hello, I have a nice working Kubuntu install with lots of extra storage space.
>> I also have my relatives laptop that has ALL their baby pictures that
>> were never backed up!

>> Their kid tossed the computer onto the floor and now the drive is dead
>> with read errors and the MS recovery disk can't help.

>> As I understand it the best think I can do is boot the computer with a
>> live CD and copy the small HD over to my computer with the router. I
>> have no clue about the best way to set this up on my computer. Any
>> pointers on this basic one time use networking?

>> Second question. What should I do to the laptop to get the most info
>> off the drive? Gparted does see that the drive has ntfs and that there
>> are errors. That is all that I can get. Should I try DDrecovery or
>> what?

>> I have never done anything like this before so don't be afraid to tell
>> me all the stupid details and point to good links.

> dd as others have suggested is good. I would also recommend:

> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

> And if you are technically capable, go and get a usb drive adaptor
> something along the lines of:
> http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266

I "+1" the idea of using a usb drive adaptor.

If the drive is damaged, you should use ddrescue first to back up and
preserve the data and then copy it over.




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