NTFS - a little off topic
Brad Spangler
brad_spangler at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 17 19:46:09 CST 2003
As mentioned in the link I sent to the list already -
RedHat leaves the NTFS driver kernel module out of
their distro for legal reasons. There are installable
RPMs available at the link below:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html
--- rod holcomb <rodbrenda.2 at gbronline.com> wrote:
>
> ---------- Original Message
> ----------------------------------
> From: Jason Clinton <jasonclinton at kcpipeband.org>
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:14:30 -0600
>
> >rod holcomb wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> >My first and only guess is that the NTFS partition
> is damaged beyond
> >repair. Has he considered a data recovery service?
> >
> >
> >--
> >Jason Clinton
> >I don't believe in witty sigs.
> >
> >
>
> No, he has writen the thing off. I was just going
> to suprise him with his old address book if I could.
>
> I felt great that I could even mount the thing.
>
>
>
>
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