Re: Slightly OT: Using Linux to fix a Windows partition

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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Using Linux to fix a Windows partition
Am 21. Apr, 2005 schwätzte Miles Beck so:

> 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.


If you have room somewhere to copy the whole partition you can make a
backup to experiment on.

Boot GNU/Linux, dd the partition to a filesystem with room for the
filesystem. Then you can make yet another copy to experiment on, including
putting back on a new partition somewhere for m$ to try to work on.

Don't confuse if (infile) and of (outfile) in the following command!

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/home/miles/machinename-hda1-26Apr2005.img

ciao,

der.hans
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