On 4/21/05, Miles Beck <mbeck@fastq.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of a good linux tool that can be used to fix a windows
> partition that is now unrecognizable by windows?
> 
> We've tried running the Windows rescue cd using chkdsk and it reported back that
> "The volume appears to contain one more more unrecoverable problems."
> 
> At the very least we would like to get the data if we can, so making the drive
> operational again is not terribly important.
> 

Miles, 

I don't know of any linux based tool that will repair a windows partition, but
I have used knoppix to read a corrupted partition that windows refused
to read. I have not tried to run repairs with knoppix, but I have been
able to get most
of the data off of drives that windows claimed was unreadable.

It's rather sad that Microsoft's tools that they wrote to work with a
filesystem that they designed often won't work at all and refuse to do
anything, where as just popping in a knoppix CD will allow you to
mount up a partition and at least get your data off of it.

-R
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