Data recovery from a crashed (Win XP) HDD of Dell Inspiron Laptop
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/25/2008 - 10:36.
Hello,
My problem is i lost all my data including the partition table of my WinXP operating system. There were couple of blue screen (of deaths) since few days and suddenly, yesterday i lost all my important data.
It now shows " error loading operating system", i think my HDD is crashed and i would like recover, so my question is is there any possiblity to use Ubuntu Rescue Remix (data recovery!) software to recover my NTFS and FAT 32 data.
Well, now i am using a live CD of Ubuntu 7.10 to access internet and reading the possible measures. Are there any possibilites from live CD ubuntu or linux versions?
Thanks and any help is highly appreciated.
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Hi. You need to image your
Hi. You need to image your drive.
You need to obtain another drive and copy the failed drive to the new one. Use gnu ddrescue to read and re-read the failed drive. It will try to read the problematic blocks from the bad disk until it get a good read.
One you have an image, you can try to mount it and copy your data from it.
See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery for examples of how to run ddrescue and other data recovery tools.
Thanks andrew, i appreciate
Thanks andrew, i appreciate it.
So, with an another (external) hard disk connected to my failed HDD laptop running on a live CD i can retrive my data....? If yes!.
Then i need to run ddrescue to obtain a image of my HDD and it is done...!? is it so simple....Please answer...Thanks
Yes. Since your disk is
Yes. Since your disk is telling you that it can't find the operating system, that usually means that the disk is present and working, but once the computer boots and tries to load the operating system from it, it has trouble reading the data.
If your computer were to tell you that the disk was missing, then your problem would be much worse.
So, yes, boot the rescue remix and image the faulty drive onto a file on another disk. This could take a few hours or a few days, depending on how hard it is to retrieve the data. If it cannot get a read, it will zero out the space on the image file, so that means that you can often mount the image as a filesystem even if it is incomplete. You can always go back and try to read the disk again to try to get more data back at a later time (if you haven't changed the filesystem on the image; mount it read-only...)
Thanks Andrew, I recovered
Thanks Andrew,
I recovered all my lost data but i used windows recovery tools, any way thanks for your suggestions.
Hi! Simply plain ubuntu
Hi!
Simply plain ubuntu (hardy) did the job for me, only a few files missed. Now I try to another similar medium (another ntfs drive) to rescue everything.
With original ubuntu I could read and write accented filenames. Unfortunately it did not worked with rescue remix.
by the way. - Win XP did not boot becouse missing partition table. Even testdisk could not restore it.
What tools did U used to recover data?
Hi I am facing the same
Hi
I am facing the same problem now for my Winxp Laptop, i can't boot nor i can see data if connected to another system. but i can see partition if connected to another system. i need it to restore my Data. SO please can u forward the link or the software to retrive the data.
I would be greatful to you ...
Thank in advance
"With original ubuntu I
"With original ubuntu I could read and write accented filenames. Unfortunately it did not worked with rescue remix."
I am assuming it is connected by USB?
The regular Ubuntu desktop mounts volumes using Hardware Abstraction Layer and Gnome-Volume-Manager. The rescue remix does not use Gnome, so it uses a leaner tool for mounting USB drives. However, you should be able to mount it "by hand" and specify another locale.
See here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNT...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions
"Win XP did not boot becouse missing partition table"
It depends on what the problem is. Did you try testdisk on the original drive or on an image? Any of these tools will not work in the case where the problem is caused by faulty hardware. Once you image to file, you can then fix the logical errors.
You can't fix logical errors on a faulty drive if you can't write to the drive...
Thank You for your tips
Thank You for your tips andrew.
It must be something similar, anyhow I did not tried to install a gui app in rescue-remix.
You are right! It was an USB and an internal SATA hard drive. I grabbed a remastered kubuntu with some extras and used an another internal HDD with NTFS.
On my case My USB stuff worked with a big FAT partition. That can give more limits.
Anyhow - next time I will try everything. (As far as I remember I tried every option of the mount with the FAT drive, codepage, locale, etc.)
Other - I tried testdisk almost first. Saw the partition. Also tried to re-write the same.
(OK - after I copied everything I could, I spanned to 2 partitions and formatted the original HDD. It is working well now.)
It was strange to me, but it happend second time. No WinXP nor BartPE could not see the partition, but ubuntu. If I find a next one I am going to investigate everything I can.
(Anyhow - this cli only mode with the codepage still interests me. Maybe if you have some tipps how to mount a hungarian language partition well? )
Thank You!
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RudyD
Sorry! It is late here... Of
Sorry! It is late here... Of course I did not have another drive to create an image from a big HDD. But reformatted since and working well.
Thank You again!
hi, my windows
hi,
my windows corrupted,cannot boot.
i try ubuntu live cd 8.04 kde to boot.and it boot successfully!
but it failed to find harddisc drive.
oh i would like to know how
oh i would like to know how and what is the best to rescue my drive