[Cialug] Linux to the rescue!

[Mark Hesseltine]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:05:08 +0000, timwilson011@mchsi.com
<timwilson011@mchsi.com> wrote:
> I have to share this with fellow Linux fans.
> 
> Recently, a coworker had his hard drive fail after only 4 months (gotta love
> those Maxtors!).  He and a couple others tried to get it back with XP Pro
> recovery console, but failed.  Chkdsk gave up due to an unrecoverable error
> after 3+ hours.  Installed XP Pro on a new drive, left the old drive in, the old
> drive showed up as blank, like it had been formatted.  All was lost (according
> to M$ utils).
> 
> Someone suggested a Linux rescue CD that's been floating around here.  So they
> boot the rescue CD and low and behold it sees the old file system.  Amazing,
> Linux can see an NTFS file system even though someone had to reverse engineer
> NTFS to get it.  And it works *better* than M$ tools.  Yeah, real "innovative",
> Billy boy!
> 
> --
> Tim W.

Yes, Tim, Linux has fine read ability on NTFS systems. See
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ for more info.

Also, there is a package that wraps the Windows Native NTFS driver to
allow read/write access from Linux. See
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ for more info on that.

Glad to hear that Linux saved the day for your friend.
-- 
Mark Hesseltine
mailto:markhesseltine@gmail.com