Comments on NTFS Disk Recovery

A Comment on your 3rd step: I've managed to recover data from _extremely_ corrupted drives by running GetDataBack NTFS (A Windows application) on the .img file created by dd/ddrescue.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

worlks for as well . it show me the directory also . 

thanks

Why not mention testdisk?  It has the ability to recover files from an unmountable drive (or even a formatted one). 

When you say:

"...I mount the working image (mary_inspiron_6000.img) as the d drive on a virtual Windows XP machine..."

 What do you mean exactly? The IMG file created by ddrescue is mounted under Windows XP using a virtual drive emulator, and which is that? What virtualization software did you use (Virtualbox...)?

Interesting article. Backing up to an image is an extremely good idea, because the method is filesystem independent and totally safe. Thanks!

I do professional data recovery using linux. GNU ddrescue is a godsend. One thing I would like to mention though: rather than using diskpart to grow the partition, I suggest using parted/gparted or ntfsresize (part of ntfsprogs). they both work very well and can be run on images or disks.

Very interesting topic!Thanks

ddrescue not available in the APT repository? Maybe not on Ubuntu, but Debian definitely has it: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ddrescue http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gddrescue

Why do you didn't use System Rescue CD?

 http://www.sysresccd.org

This live distribuiton has everything you need to rescue Linux or Windows disk/partitions, recover/cretae disk/partition images, etc.

- NFS Client/Server
- PartImage
- GParted
- NTFS-3G
- and a VERY LONG etc.

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This tutorial shows how to create an image of a bad hard drive with DDRescue, then mount it as a virtual drive in Windows.  

http://www.myfixlog.com/fix.php?fid=21

Gddrescue is available from Ubuntu's repositories, but you have to enable the 'universe' repository.