My bro in law brought me the a similar problem this weekend.  Had a FAT32
drive that was hosed from a virus.

I was able to recover all the data, even after I formatted.  I did use
windows though...so I won't really go into the process on the list.   I
don't want to blaspheme.

Email me if you're interested.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "rod holcomb" <rodbrenda.2@gbronline.com>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Cc: <@mail.gbronline.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: NTFS - a little off topic

>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Jason Clinton <jasonclinton@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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