Hi guys,
again I have messed up with my Win partition and my computer can boot
only from Linux.
Moroever part of the data files stored in the Win partition are lost
(the worst is that those are my wife's data... you can see the
problem..). So before I reinstall Win on the computer and thus
completely loose any hope to recover the data, I would like to know if
there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
the win partition???


Thanks

Paolo Perani

Paolo wrote:
> Hi guys,
> again I have messed up with my Win partition and my computer can boot
> only from Linux.
> Moroever part of the data files stored in the Win partition are lost
> (the worst is that those are my wife's data... you can see the
> problem..). So before I reinstall Win on the computer and thus
> completely loose any hope to recover the data, I would like to know if
> there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
> Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
> the win partition???
>

If there is enough of the partition left that the files are found,
you can try to mount the partition in Linux.

The suitable file system types are 'vfat' or 'ntfs'. Please
do not attempt to mount NTFS writeable - it may ensure that
the partition is really corrupted, if you try to write into it.

If you're using the default kernel of the distribution,
you may need to load the file system modules before
mounting with either 'modprobe vfat' or 'modprobe ntfs'.

HTH

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

Paolo wrote:

> Hi guys,
> again I have messed up with my Win partition and my computer can boot
> only from Linux.
> Moroever part of the data files stored in the Win partition are lost
> (the worst is that those are my wife's data... you can see the
> problem..). So before I reinstall Win on the computer and thus
> completely loose any hope to recover the data, I would like to know if
> there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
> Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
> the win partition???
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Paolo Perani
Hello, I would try PCLinux2K4 livecd, Knoppix like... It mounts every
partition that can be mounted. A perfect rescue CD.
Hope it helps

Paolo wrote:

> Hi guys,
> again I have messed up with my Win partition and my computer can boot
> only from Linux.
> Moroever part of the data files stored in the Win partition are lost
> (the worst is that those are my wife's data... you can see the
> problem..). So before I reinstall Win on the computer and thus
> completely loose any hope to recover the data, I would like to know if
> there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
> Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
> the win partition???
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Paolo Perani

or you could try the recovery is possible cd from:
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/
or the systemrescue cd from
http://www.sysresccd.org/
these thingies both should enclude tools to recover lost partitions, even on
the suse cd/dvd should be some tool like that, just choose install, then
when it tells you that it's found some existing linux installation go for
repair, there on expert mode and there you should find some tool to recover
lost partitions too. the rest then would be as the others told, mount it
from linux and get your data.

Paolo wrote:

> I would like to know if
> there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
> Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
> the win partition???

.... i've had a co-worker experience this with his laptop
recently, as we installed Linux to this box and experienced
the "2.6 kernel/mbr/xp/mismatch" issue.

first off, a bit of analysis:
* what did you do, exactly - might provide
some step-by-step info
* what have you done so far to recover? sometimes
you can do more damage in a desperate attempt to
recover.

here's what i would do:
* download and burn knoppix and boot it from the CD
and see if you can mount and view the files on
the winders side. device icons will be on the
desktop for all partitions found
* open a console and do a "fdisk -l /dev/hda > fdisk.txt"
to save off the current layout
* then do a, "dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1"
this saves off a current image of the MBR to the file
named "mbr.img" (i "save" this off to my gmail account
as a 'save draft' ... be sure to save off the ouput
from the previous fdisk step).
* this step depends how much you know about partitions,
filesystems, MBR entries, etc. from here, it's
grunt work. you need to dig around and see if you can
get at the data.

you could save off the partition with 'www.partimage.org'.
at worse, if you cant see or access the data, you're only
chance of recovery would be the ontrack easyrecover tool.

--
<< http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >>
"Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence"
-- Time Bandits

do you have a icon on your desk top that will allow you to access
the windows partition if so it should be an easy task to navigate
to the dir that contians you wife's files then just drag and drop
to a new partion. If you do not have an icon on the desk top
create one.

right click on desktop
high light create new
high light device
click on hard drive
click device
and input /dev/hda1(windows/c)inthe window
or click drop down menu and scroll down to the above partion
the click ok done

Sorry guys I did not explain the problem well:
I can mount the Win partition using Suse Linux and Knoppix without
problems. The point is that in the Win partition (that is not booting)
some files are missing, thus my question was: is there a soft in Linux
that can unerase files in Win?


Paolo

Marius Mosimann <der_ft._ike@invalid.gmx> wrote in message news:<4193e527_3@news.bluewin.ch>...
> Paolo wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> > again I have messed up with my Win partition and my computer can boot
> > only from Linux.
> > Moroever part of the data files stored in the Win partition are lost
> > (the worst is that those are my wife's data... you can see the
> > problem..). So before I reinstall Win on the computer and thus
> > completely loose any hope to recover the data, I would like to know if
> > there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
> > Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
> > the win partition???
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Paolo Perani
>
> or you could try the recovery is possible cd from:
> http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/
> or the systemrescue cd from
> http://www.sysresccd.org/
> these thingies both should enclude tools to recover lost partitions, even on
> the suse cd/dvd should be some tool like that, just choose install, then
> when it tells you that it's found some existing linux installation go for
> repair, there on expert mode and there you should find some tool to recover
> lost partitions too. the rest then would be as the others told, mount it
> from linux and get your data.

( top posting fixed )

In comp.os.linux.misc Paolo <bibinix@gmx.net>:
> Marius Mosimann <der_ft._ike@invalid.gmx> wrote in message news:<4193e527_3@news.bluewin.ch>...
>> Paolo wrote:
>> > Hi guys,
>> > again I have messed up with my Win partition and my computer can boot
>> > only from Linux.
>> > Moroever part of the data files stored in the Win partition are lost
>> > (the worst is that those are my wife's data... you can see the
>> > problem..). So before I reinstall Win on the computer and thus
>> > completely loose any hope to recover the data, I would like to know if
>> > there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
>> > Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
>> > the win partition???
>>
>> or you could try the recovery is possible cd from:
>> http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/
>> or the systemrescue cd from
>> http://www.sysresccd.org/
>> these thingies both should enclude tools to recover lost partitions, even on
>> the suse cd/dvd should be some tool like that, just choose install, then
>> when it tells you that it's found some existing linux installation go for
>> repair, there on expert mode and there you should find some tool to recover
>> lost partitions too. the rest then would be as the others told, mount it
>> from linux and get your data.

> Sorry guys I did not explain the problem well:
> I can mount the Win partition using Suse Linux and Knoppix without
> problems. The point is that in the Win partition (that is not booting)
> some files are missing, thus my question was: is there a soft in Linux
> that can unerase files in Win?

You still didn't mention what kind of fs you have on the M$
partition, look at the output of 'mount' from some xterm/kvt.

You could try searching freshmeat.net for some tools.

BTW
Amazing how much work people put into fixing their broken M$
systems, instead of recovering their personal data and dropping
the crap completely.

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 196: Me no internet, only janitor, me just
wax floors.

Paolo wrote:

> Sorry guys I did not explain the problem well:
> I can mount the Win partition using Suse Linux and Knoppix without
> problems. The point is that in the Win partition (that is not booting)
> some files are missing, thus my question was: is there a soft in Linux
> that can unerase files in Win?
>
>
> Paolo
>
> Marius Mosimann <der_ft._ike@invalid.gmx> wrote in message
> news:<4193e527_3@news.bluewin.ch>...
>> Paolo wrote:
>>
>> > Hi guys,
>> > again I have messed up with my Win partition and my computer can boot
>> > only from Linux.
>> > Moroever part of the data files stored in the Win partition are lost
>> > (the worst is that those are my wife's data... you can see the
>> > problem..). So before I reinstall Win on the computer and thus
>> > completely loose any hope to recover the data, I would like to know
>> > if there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio
>> > FROM Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can
>> > see the win partition???
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Paolo Perani
>>
>> or you could try the recovery is possible cd from:
>> http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/
>> or the systemrescue cd from
>> http://www.sysresccd.org/
>> these thingies both should enclude tools to recover lost partitions,
>> even on the suse cd/dvd should be some tool like that, just choose
>> install, then when it tells you that it's found some existing linux
>> installation go for repair, there on expert mode and there you should
>> find some tool to recover lost partitions too. the rest then would be
>> as the others told, mount it from linux and get your data.

Paolo
In that case mount the partition, then copy the files across to your
home directory. If you have a CD writer I would copy these files to CD
(just in case!). This then should allow you to repair the Windows
partition.

Regards
Bruce.

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mjt wrote:

> Paolo wrote:
>
>> I would like to know if
>> there is ANY possibility to recover the data IN the Win partitio FROM
>> Linux. Is there anything as Norton Utl that work in Linux an can see
>> the win partition???
>
> ... i've had a co-worker experience this with his laptop
> recently, as we installed Linux to this box and experienced
> the "2.6 kernel/mbr/xp/mismatch" issue.

I'm considering installing SuSE on my new laptop (Windows XP Home
pre-installed). What is this 2.6 kernel/mbr/xp/mismatch issue? Can I safely
install SuSE 9.1 (or 9.2) and keep the WinXP working?

best,
Jeroen