mount: ntfs not recognised?

[John Myshrall]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Computer of my friend got broken. Windows does not start and is not 
> willing to be repaired. HD itself is more or less ok. He would loose a 
> huge amount of valuable data if formatting was done. HD is of SATA 
> type, while on my comp its IDE, so I can not connect it to my computer.
>
> I burned Centos 5.2 LiveCD and booted his computer from it. Works 
> great. I can browse through one partition on his HD, sde1, but sde2 is 
> not mounted automatically and when I try to mount it manually, I get 
> the following error message:
>
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
>
> ntfs is shown as a filesystem type on that partition when using 
> hardware manager.
>
> What should I think about that? Any ideas what next?
>
> zb.
>
I've had success using this live CD. http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page 
However


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