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Aloone_Jonez:
My computer is fucked up, I was just doing college work a few days ago and my hard drive made some crazy noise, I just thought there was some shit caught in the fan so I ignored it. I shut it down, came back later and tried to boot and it refused, the BIOS displayed "IDE ERROR" so I booted from Knoppix, then I looked at my Windows ntfs paritition and it said "BAD SUPERBLOCK"

Just a few questions:

What the fuck is the SUPERBLOCK?

Is the hard drive fucked up?

Can I recover the data on the ntfs partition using Knoppix? I tried fschk but it won't work for ntfs.

If ever I manage to recover the data, how can I burn it to a CD using Knoppix when I only have one CD drive?

I also want to resize an FAT32 partition on the slave drive but I need to deframent it first, is there a way of doing this in Knoppix? I tried defrag but it won't work on FAT32.

By the way my Windows hard drive has XP sp2 and I'm using Knoppix 3.4, yes I know I need to upgrade Knoppix.

noob:
i find knoppix std is a good recovery tool. reads stuff windows cant and can recover data well. i nevber use ntfs because of that problem. get a new hdd and put that imn as master, old one as slave and use knoppix to copy the whole drive over. then shut it down, remove the secondary drive, the fubared one and put in the xp cd. run the recovery console and re-write the boot sector. then try and boot it up. xp *MAY* bsod cause of the different hdd. if it does, run the xp install from the cd and go to the second point qhere ity asks you is you want to repair xp. it MAY work, or may require a full re-insyall of everything.
hope it works.

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: noob ---i find knoppix std is a good recovery tool. reads stuff windows cant and can recover data well. i nevber use ntfs because of that problem.
--- End quote ---

I haven't had a problem reading the ntfs partition before in Knoppix and using cative I can both read and write to it. I use ntfs because it's better than FAT32 because it's journaled, for example if the system isn't shut down properly it's less likely to fuck up.


--- Quote from: noob --- get a new hdd and put that imn as master, old one as slave and use knoppix to copy the whole drive over. then shut it down, remove the secondary drive, the fubared one and put in the xp cd.
--- End quote ---

I have another hard disc, it's currently set up as a slave, it has Vector Linux and the FAT32 partition I was talking about resizing. Vector Linux won't boot at the moment because X is currenty using a mode that won't work with my new flat screen monitor, Knoppix and Windows didn't have a problem with it, but anyway I can't be fucked to fix this at the moment as I'm thinking of trying a diferent distro once (or if I manage to) I've recovered my data on the ntfs drive.


--- Quote from: noob --- run the recovery console and re-write the boot sector.
--- End quote ---

Hang on it's the SUPERBLOCK that's fucked up not the boot sector, or are they the same thing?


--- Quote from: noob --- then try and boot it up. xp *MAY* bsod cause of the different hdd. if it does, run the xp install from the cd and go to the second point qhere ity asks you is you want to repair xp. it MAY work, or may require a full re-insyall of everything.
hope it works.
--- End quote ---

I'm not bothered about getting Windows working, all I want to do at the moment is recover my data.

piratePenguin:
According to this:

--- Quote ---The Superblock contains a description of the basic size and shape of this file system.
--- End quote ---

This page describes how to 'fix a corrupted magic number in the file system superblock', but it's for JFS and GNU/Linux. It also says:

--- Quote ---If the superblock of a file system is damaged, the file system cannot be accessed. Most damage to the superblock cannot be repaired.
--- End quote ---
I dunno if that page can help in your situation, but the 'od' part is quite interesting if you ask me. See if your FS has the correct magic number. You might be able to fix it then...

noob:
i meant copy it all over to another drive and the re-write the boot sector wo sindows will boot. then u can get the data you want off it. and i have had most probelms with ntfs and bad shutdowns. fat 32 gets errors, but are easier to fix.

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