Checking an HPFS/NTFS file system

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Mon May 17 11:49:01 PDT 2004


Net Llama! wrote:

> dd is your best bet for cloning a drive exactly.  tar would prolly 
> work in a pinch.  Can you mount the NTFS patition under linux?  Can 
> you read its contents?  Are there any errors when you do that?  In 
> many cases, you shouldn't need any fancy vendor utilities to deterine 
> that the drive is fscked.  What kind of drive is this?
>

Just a thought: partimage will save a partition to a file, supposedly 
restorable to any other partition.


-- 
Ken




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