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| Thread ID: 95699 | 2008-12-14 23:18:00 | Dual boot gone wrong | dre (14409) | Press F1 |
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| 729144 | 2008-12-15 21:46:00 | Thanks for all your help guys. Unfortunately I've had to bite the bullet. Currently copying all files onto an external hard drive. Then the task of sifting through 70GB of data :stare: I guess the filenames thing explain the silly filenames I'm seeing. This does mean that I can't work out which files I actually need thus need to look through them all :-( I'm using PhotoRec inside Knoppix, does anyone know if this will preserve file types such as word documents and, less likely, microsoft money and quickbooks etc?? Only 4 hours remaining lol |
dre (14409) | ||
| 729145 | 2008-12-15 21:53:00 | You would be lucky if it did.. However, as long as the data is still intact, that's all that matters.. *phew* www.cgsecurity.org |
mabix (10146) | ||
| 729146 | 2008-12-15 22:09:00 | In the original post you put the error NTLDR is missing - did you try that boot CD I posted in #17 - that will bypass that problem - or at least usually let it boot to something thats workable. If Linux damaged the boot loader normally it is fixable. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 729147 | 2008-12-15 22:11:00 | In the original post you put the error NTLDR is missing - did you try that boot CD I posted in #17 - that will bypass that problem - or at least usually let it boot to something thats workable. If Linux damaged the boot loader normally it is fixable. But his XP installation can't be found, and even in linux he says that his filenames are stuffed. Must have been corrupted during the resize Install Ubntu in Windows. Works much better. |
mabix (10146) | ||
| 729148 | 2008-12-15 22:16:00 | But his XP installation can't be found, and even in linux he says that his filenames are stuffed. Must have been corrupted during the resize Install Ubntu in Windows. Works much better. You'd be surprised what can be rescued ;) Had that problem before with Linux screwing things. Better to use a Live CD if you want to "play" with linux, OR use a VM drive - heres Xubuntu on VM (www.imagef1.net.nz) with XP media Center as the host - working great and no chance of Linux stuffing up Windows. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 729149 | 2008-12-16 01:07:00 | Right, I'm kind of getting somewhere. Got some files off (a very sensitive usb cabe meant it stopped about quarter the way through (even though this took about 5 hours with 10 hours remaining). I thought I would check out the files (on Vista laptop) after sorting them using PhotoRec_Sorter. This is currently running on folder 42 of 300+ so I think I'll leave that going over night. My problem is I tried to open a DOC file but it says "Error reading file" when I use Open Office Org (I removed Word). Is there a step I'm missing? JPEGs seem to work (even though they are crap from the cache) |
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