I haven't dealt with your specific situation, but Ubuntu installed on a USB drive has been very useful for data recovery with "ntfs-config".  However, the following link says that "ntfs-config" is now obsolete:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

My Ubuntu install is more than 2 years old.  All the best.

Erick


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Humphrey Kirui <hkirui@gmail.com> wrote:
Skunks,


I have a situation where an NTFS partitioned desktop HDD has failed after performing an automated Windows 7 Check Disk.

I have tried to slave it on another Win 7 PC and perform a chckdsk /f.
But reportedly "Drive is corrupted and inaccessible"

On the other hand, I have Ubuntu and Fedora Live CDs which come in handy  for data recovery when Windows fails. The failed HDD can be detected with tools like GParted, but reports a bad 'superblock', and cannot be mounted.

Any ideas on how I can use any of these 2 distros for recovery?


Regards,
Hum4.

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