How To Recover Corrupted Hard Drive or NTFS Files
If you have a disaster, an unreadable HDD or Corrupted Partition on windows but the drive can still detected on CMOS/BIOS, you still have hope in recovering your data using a linux installation.
* Download first DSL (damn small linux) on this sites...
Current Full Mirror List:
- ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/
http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/
http://mirror.psunit.com/dsl/
http://dsl.thegeekery.com
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/damnsmall/ (South Africa)
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/damnsmall/ (Austria) also rsync and FTP
http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/DamnSmallLinux/Location: (Quebec, Canada)
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/ (Belgian)
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/ (Belgian)
http://planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmall/
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmall/
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsmalllinux.org/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsmalllinux.org/
- Then burn the ISO image
- After You have burn the CD, configure your BIOS to start on CD first.
- Configure your un-readable or corrupted HDD as Primary Master
- The Computer Will boot on Boot Image (DSL)
* after booting you will see the GUI of the DSL, run TERMINAL
and follow this command
*Note: this command will make you a super user in DSL
#sudo su
*Note: this command will mount you HDD on DSL
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
*Note: this command will check if your data is still on the HDD
#cd /mnt/hda1
#ls -al
*Note: If your data is still there, your lucky.. Now Shutdown your PC and put a secondary working HDD formatted as FAT32 to copy your data.
*Repeat steps..
#sudo su
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
*Note: This command will mount your secondary slave HDD, and make a folder "backup"
#mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
#cd /mnt/hdc1
#mkdir backup
- Then after mounting the another HDD, you can copy your files from the corrupted HDD to working HDD
#cp -R /mnt/hda1/*.* /mnt/hdc1/backup
Then that's all, hope it helppppssss...
mikejc
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