mount: ntfs not recognised?

[E K]

--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: mount: ntfs not recognised?
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Monday, January 12, 2009, 11:02 AM
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:29:33PM -0500, 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.
> 
> You can get very handy usb to ide/sata adapters for $25 and
> up.  A very
> nice one is about $40, unless you get it on sale from dell
> for $25 (like
> I managed last year).  Really handy for drive recoveries.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Perhaps centos is using too ancient a kernel to support
> modern versions
> of ntfs, or perhaps ntfs in need of repair can't be
> mounted.
> 
> Sometimes booting the windows install cd and going to the
> repair console
> will let you get a command prompt where you can run chkdsk
> on the drive
> and get it fixed that way.
> 
> -- 


I had similar problem some time back and I used Puppy Linux to recover the data. I then used ftp to transfer the data to my computer over the network.

Good luck,
EK


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