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Re: [edlug] [OT] Broken NTFS partition



The best results I've had repairing NTFS was to put the drive into an
external USB case or similar and plug it into a WinXP machine and let
Windows recovery tools loose on it. In most cases the partition was
recovered.

Joe. 


On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 18:14 +0100, Robert Gorrie wrote:
> Can anyone recommend tools for recovering a corrupted NTFS  
> partition?  I seem to have managed to overwrite the start of the  
> partition with grub. :-(  It now neither boots, nor mounts under linux.
> 
> I have already tried scrounge-ntfs with no success, and although  
> photorec has recovered some files, it can't do ones that are  
> fragmented and doesn't preserve filenames.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation for any advice.
> 
> Robert
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