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[76.182.104.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p29sm64496617yhl.19.2012.07.09.11.56.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:56:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3WWG3w5mBJz2CG62 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:56:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:56:44 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120709145644.1f33b15c@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20120709185437.3e747d46.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4C0F7421AA759346AF17299922AD57EB06286449@Mercury.universe.galaxy.lcl> <20120709185437.3e747d46.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmDNStB1NU7+QzfTvSMJGpE48FEtdM4O9OfTywG+EQe309pncuBaswia/4NJ3z4rYfmbXiT Subject: Re: NTFS data recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:56:48 -0000 On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 18:54:37 +0200 Polytropon articulated: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:01:56 +0000, Graeme Dargie wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have been given a laptop to look at for a friend, the hard disk > > is close to death with a SMART error on POST. My initial thought > > was to just mount it on an Windows 7 machine and grab what I can > > from the drive. > > Bad idea. You cannot fully make sure that the disk's content > isn't altered. There's no "mount -o ro" in "Windows". Even > worse, it might lead to more corruption during attempts to > "repair" it. I have seen this work, but not on Windows 7. (based on Windows 2003 SP2) 1) switch off "automount" using the mountvol.exe command 2) present disk to Windows 2003 SP2 3) do not mount the disk 4) launch diskpart 5) do a "list disk" and "list volume" 6) note down the correct volume number 7) in diskpart do a "select volume X" (where X is the correct volume number) 8) then in diskpart doa "att vol set readonly" 9) then in diskpart do a "detail vol" and ensure the readonly bit is set 10) then you can mount the volume, the volume will be readonly Interestingly enough, only a few months ago, I used SpinRite 6 to recover an 80 Gb disk that was supposedly fried. If the HD can be seen by the system hardware, SpinRite has a fighting chance of recovering it. It took a week but it got all of the data back. I did take the HD out of the original PC and put it into a backup unit since I could not tie that PC up for an extended time. SpinRite does not need a super high speed machine to work off of. Good luck, you'll need it. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not BICKER and ARGUE over who killed who!