NTFS - a little off topic

[rod holcomb]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jason Clinton <jasonclinton at kcpipeband.org>

>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.