OT Rescue CDs/DVDs

[Russell Reiter]

My knowledge of windows is pretty obsolete. However, crcdisk.sys looks
like a cyclic redundancy check failure. In this case the dd option
someone else posted, whereby information is copied byte by byte, in
the example posted which excludes bad sectors, is a good option for
recovery. Try a Slax or other live cd.



On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Ivan Avery Frey
<ivan.avery.frey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I just had a look at Slax I like the posix overlay that allows for
>> ntfs mounts as a loop device for purposes of simple data recovery. Of
>> course it all depends on what manner of failure is happpening on the
>> drive.
>
> SMART is being triggered. I did a test right from the BIOS and it
> fails immediately.
> I was able to mount it in System Rescue CD and I was able to see files.
>
> In windows safe mode it hangs at crcdisk.sys.
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