Lito
11-07-2006, 12:15 PM
Well yesterday morning before the 9.2 OB release, my Work Drive crashed. Checked it with chkdsk but it said it had errors then it would just quit out with an unknown error during the check!!! Windows happily complained that the disk was not formatted and wanted me to format it when I tried to access the disk. I was thinking I lost all the data on the drive but good thing I don't give up that easily. Well Linux came to my rescue and allowed me to not only mount the broken NTFS HD but it let me recover almost all the data.
Now here is a weird thing. Since I recovered all the files I could under linux I decided to try booting my BartPE recovery disc and it has a chkdsk utility in it. I decided to run it since I had really nothing more I could lose. I figured the chkdsk would just crap out like the one I ran under windows safemode, but it is still running and it actually sounds like it is working. I didn't expect the chkdsks to be different since BartPE is made from the same WinXP install disc I installed my computer with. Well it's still chugging along now and it looks like it's going to take a long while.
So anyone out there listening to this minor rant, get yourself a copy of unbuntu(6.06.1) and knoppix(5.01) linux and make yourself a bartPE disc ( http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ ). You may not need it now, but it might just save your butt one day. All the tools are free too, just costs you a couple of CD-R's and/or DVD-R's to burn the images too. :)
Now here is a weird thing. Since I recovered all the files I could under linux I decided to try booting my BartPE recovery disc and it has a chkdsk utility in it. I decided to run it since I had really nothing more I could lose. I figured the chkdsk would just crap out like the one I ran under windows safemode, but it is still running and it actually sounds like it is working. I didn't expect the chkdsks to be different since BartPE is made from the same WinXP install disc I installed my computer with. Well it's still chugging along now and it looks like it's going to take a long while.
So anyone out there listening to this minor rant, get yourself a copy of unbuntu(6.06.1) and knoppix(5.01) linux and make yourself a bartPE disc ( http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ ). You may not need it now, but it might just save your butt one day. All the tools are free too, just costs you a couple of CD-R's and/or DVD-R's to burn the images too. :)