NTFS - a little off topic

[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 =93ls =96l=94 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?

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Jason Clinton
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