Hmm It was probably NTFS in the first place. Try that.haffeysucks wrote:
okay i looked at both of those links. i see both the Vista drive and the XP drive BUT the Vista drive has no filesystem (either FAT or NTFS). according to CrazeD's link, you can only mount one or the other. mine is nothing?....sigh
The device '/dev/sda' doesn't have a valid NTFS. Shit.JoshP wrote:
Hmm It was probably NTFS in the first place. Try that.haffeysucks wrote:
okay i looked at both of those links. i see both the Vista drive and the XP drive BUT the Vista drive has no filesystem (either FAT or NTFS). according to CrazeD's link, you can only mount one or the other. mine is nothing?....sigh
If it doesn't work, then try an enclosure, but you may have lost your data if no file system is showing up
Well right now the drive doesn't really show up in any OS, so I'm not quite there yet...CrazeD wrote:
Pretty much every recovery tool is a bootable application.
Recuva is a good one.
But I can't boot into XP with the drive plugged in alongside the boot drive.CrazeD wrote:
That doesn't mean it won't show up to a recovery tool.
Try SpinRite or HDD regenerator too.
Ohhh. Damnit, now I have to install a torrent program on this other computer...CrazeD wrote:
So? They're bootable programs. You download, and burn to a disc or USB drive, then boot off it.
Actually, I recommend you torrent Hiren's Boot CD. It has a bunch of shit like recovery tools and HDD diagnostic stuff all in one bootable ISO. You can find it on thepiratebay. I think 9.5 is one of the latest.
Damn, just looked at it on TBP... looks amazingCrazeD wrote:
Hiren's boot CD is not a recovery tool in its own right, it is a collection of a shitload of other utilities. For instance, it has recovery tools, backup tools, diagnostic tools, partition tools, monitoring tools, etc. A shitload of programs all in one nice little CD and a nice little menu. I highly recommend it, great resource to have.
JoshP wrote:
Downloading now
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I did, but I didn't know that was on there. Right now I am recovering the drive with a program from that boot CD but it's taking FOREVER. At this rate I think it'll be done by tomorrow night.JoshP wrote:
Did you download Hiren's boot CD? on TPB it said it included a bootable live xp environment. Did you try booting into that with your faulty drive plugged in too? (might work differently)
It finished. It only shows all the sectors as "Processed" with no "Recovered" or "Unrecovered" sectors. Don't know what that means as they don't have any SpinRite v6 documentation on their website.CrazeD wrote:
Recovery programs take a fucking long time, just let them work.