Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:50:54 -0600 Message-Id: <200303171250.AA6881370@mail.gbronline.com> From: "rod holcomb" <rodbrenda.2@gbronline.com> Subject: NTFS - a little off topic
Situation:
My neighbor gave me a 20 gig hd that came out of his WinXP machine. I would like to recover a few files (address book and email) for him before I reformat the drive. I was able to mount the drive (on a RH8.0 machine) and I can see the directory structure. I can access the
/WINDOWS directory, but the directories
/Program Files and
/Documents and Setting
are listed after a “ls –l” command but I cannot access them. Actually the file type is (?) instead of (d) and the size is zero as I recall.
Any suggestions on getting to this data (if in still exists)? I can ask him for the usernames and passwords that he had been using.
I can also bring my server (RH8.0) with the WinXP drive attached to the next meeting if that might help.
It has been suggested to me to get a dos boot floppy from NTFS.com and use that.
Any comments would be appreciated.
Thanks
Rod Holcomb