> Anyone have any good opensource (Free) software to do data recovery on a
> Win2K hard drive that lost it's boot sector and index. I have tried to
> mount the drive in windows xp, Knoppix and ubuntu and it is not a
> recognized ntfs partition. I can search the drive using some of the
> commercial demos of windows based data recovery software and see the
> files, but none of the demos will allow me to recover the data. I
> checked out sourceforge for data recovery software, but I couldn't find
> anything that matched my search criteria. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
I always thought win should take care of win problems.
Knoppix and ubuntu may need a file system driver (module) for
the ntfs file system.
Note: the 2.6 kernels only should be trusted for ntfs file system
writes. (per the LINUX ntfs team web site)
You might have to copy byte by byte (manually) the boot sector
and up to the partition table from a other good similarly formatted
drive with a (32 bit) "disk editor" I have a friend that did it.
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Ron KA4INM
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