How To Recover Corrupted Hard Drive or NTFS Files

Contributor Icon Contributed by mikejc Date Icon September 7, 2006  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

If you have a disaster, an unreadable HDD or Corrupted Partition on windows but the drive can still detected on CMOS/BIOS, you still have hope in recovering your data using a linux installation.


* Download first DSL (damn small linux) on this sites…

Current Full Mirror List:

    ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/
    http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/
    http://mirror.psunit.com/dsl/
    http://dsl.thegeekery.com
    ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/damnsmall/ (South Africa)
    http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/damnsmall/ (Austria) also rsync and FTP
    http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/DamnSmallLinux/Location: (Quebec, Canada)
    http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/ (Belgian)
    ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/ (Belgian)
    http://planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmall/
    ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmall/
    http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsmalllinux.org/
    ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsmalllinux.org/

- Then burn the ISO image

- After You have burn the CD, configure your BIOS to start on CD first.

- Configure your un-readable or corrupted HDD as Primary Master

- The Computer Will boot on Boot Image (DSL)

* after booting you will see the GUI of the DSL, run TERMINAL
and follow this command

*Note: this command will make you a super user in DSL

#sudo su

*Note: this command will mount you HDD on DSL

#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

*Note: this command will check if your data is still on the HDD

#cd /mnt/hda1
#ls -al

*Note: If your data is still there, your lucky.. Now Shutdown your PC and put a secondary working HDD formatted as FAT32 to copy your data.

*Repeat steps..

#sudo su
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

*Note: This command will mount your secondary slave HDD, and make a folder “backup”

#mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
#cd /mnt/hdc1
#mkdir backup

- Then after mounting the another HDD, you can copy your files from the corrupted HDD to working HDD

#cp -R /mnt/hda1/*.* /mnt/hdc1/backup

Then that’s all, hope it helppppssss…

mikejc

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  • adham badr
    i keep getting the message can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry dropping you to a very limited shell.
    only 4 commands are available.. and sudo isnt one of them !..
    but mount is working, but it doesnt find the device, but its readable at boot, i tried fdisk -l , but its not working.. what should i do to complete the KNOPPIX filesystem ?
  • Thanks man, just what I was looking for. Worked like a charm Thanks so much…
  • drmfba
    my external hard drive is corrupted and unreadable which i use for my external use only like a USB...i have very important data of mine in that damn HD can i recover that data from that drive ....plz tell
  • kalkal
    which file shoul we download? i downloaded dsl-4-4-10.iso file and burned it on cd. when it boots the computer hangs and doesn't continue. what is the problem?
  • esmitee
    Yes Could someone tell me what file, folder or files to DL? I'm not that great with the FPT's, And Ya, I need help I dled dsl-n-01RC4 and all I get is Roxio easy CD Creator Ver, 5.3.4.21 SP8 95.3 meg file And I also DLed KNOPPIX-ADRIANE_V6.2CD-2009-11-18-EN @ 690 Meg but all i get is the roxio as above, No TERMINAL or GUI ?
    Tried using them both to boot, Boot Disk Failure for the 2? I dont think I have the right files...Please Help
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