recover WinXP ntfs hd from Linux 557
GCC is open source and comes with all mainstream general-purpose Linux distributions. That doesn't mean it'll necessarily be installed by default, though. Clearly it's not installed on your system...
dryfly
If it was in warranty, most likely they only did a "full" (forget the term) S.M.A.R.T test. This is the same test that some manufacturers require for RMAs. If it failed or looked near failure they simply replaced it.
Very unlikely that they they tried to mount it or boot from it. They are not in the data recovery business.
Dances With Crows here it goes: Diskdev-hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors-track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systemdev-hda1 1...
Hard to know what XP might check-double check to mount the drive. Nor do I recall offhand the differences between how XP accesses the drive compared to Linux kernel-ntfs driver.
First collect as much data off the drive as possible, ASAP.
You could use something like parted or QTparted to look at the parbreastion tables or sfdisk if you're comfortable with that.
Double check the recovered data. What's missing?
Get the maker's hard disk diagnostic utility for for thorough testing and possible disk recovery. Try here:
Note that some "recovery" techniques are "destructive". The thorough test may also show eminent failure just below the pbutt-fail threshold used for the "gross" test-report used for end user notification. To decipher what the tests may reveal try here (as well as a wealth of info re. S.M.A.R.T):
In the end, if I were you, I would be very reluctant to depend on that disk for anything more than experimenting. Maybe you could really break it with hdparm :-)
good luck, prg
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