---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Jason Clinton >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.