You could always use disk drill. I use that for any supported filesystem I have here (including NTFS, EXFat, HPFS (many of thee BSD’s use this), OS X journaled FS and many more. It can recover, under limited circumstances even a partition table.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Recovery and backups Dept.


On Jun 11, 2024, at 8:58 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

well, the drive may be ntfs but the files written were jpg written from a linux machine.... hmmmm. I guess it should be able to read from windows seeing as it us a JPG and not some exotic open source file:!) I guess it just got corrupted. The question still remains, is there a way to recover the files on the drive? I hope so, There were pictures on that drive. My entire south carolina trip!

The directions that were given were to run:

     chkdsk /f 

on the drive. Have two problems with those directions though: 1. that requires admin privileges and I don't know how to do that. 2. when I stick the drive in it gives me the insert drive tone and then the disconnect drive tone and never assigns a drive letter to it. Then it repeats that until I pull the drive. And if I've kept the drive in there long enough it keeps doing that after I've pulled the drive. 3. 

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 11:17 PM Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:


On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 5:44 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

    (it didn't reply all and only got sent to one person)

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Based on the output you have shared, it appears the disk has an NTFS filesystem which is probably corrupted.
Since you are running Windows as your desktop, why are you trying to repair it from WSL Linux? 
Isn't your Windows File Manager showing it as a drive unless I am missing something?

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