NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?

[David McNally]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 01/21/2010 01:47 PM, David McNally wrote:
>> Just to see if it works, I clicked reply to my original email. Maybe
>> that will help? Maybe not. We'll see.
>>
>> I was thinking, is there any way to assign a drive letter to the drive
>> in windows compmgmt.msc? I didn't notice one, but there might be. If
>> there is, then it will probably show up in My Computer, and then I can
>> right-click on the drive, click properties, tools, check for errors.
>>
>> But I think assigning a drive letter that way is a bit unlikely to
>> work, considering that I spent a pretty long time going through
>> compmgmt and I couldn't find anything. So I think that I'm stuck with
>> some recovery tools. Does anyone know of some really good tools for
>> fixing this?
>
> Testdisk will most likely do the trick:
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
>
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Looks nice. It's downloading and installing in Synaptic right now.
I'll try it out in a minute when it finishes.

Thanks so much for your help. Hope this works!

David

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