Re: data retrieval from a faulty laptop hard drive

puck <puck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in news:2jo4a258i6rk4cl9da8ird1kdhtpmidjmg@xxxxxxx:

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:35:29 +0100, Mark a
<m.annetts-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

puck wrote:

i need to access the my documents folder of a faulty hitachi
laptop drive.

When my Hitachi laptop drive went tits up recently I found the
freeware 'NTFS Reader For DOS' recovered everything off the
drive. But it all depends on how the drive has failed. My drive
was a WinXP installation using NTFS file format.

For it to work the Hitachi has to be the main drive C: again,
not via a USB reader. You then need to boot from an external
device and load DOS (I used an external USB floppy drive) and
then the NTFS reader (it's a DOS program) from that floppy (it's
small enough to fit on a floppy).

The only drawbacks are it's pretty damn slow (every time you
change directory it has to rescan the drive), and two, its
biggest problem is that it will only save recovered files in
standard DOS 8.3 format, so you have to keep track of the files
real filename and rename it later on, on another machine. Oh,
and you need some sort of external device to save the recovered
files to (I used a 1Gb USB memory stick).

Other than that it worked perfectly and recovered every single
thing from the drive. Just took me two solid days to do it. And
another day renaming all the files back to their long file
names.

The program can be found here:

http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm

Good luck, hope it works as well for you as it did me.

Regards

Mark

hi mark

thanks for thr suggestion, i do not have a floppy drive in the
klaptop or even a usb floppy :(

There's a bootable CD image at the site.

.

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