October 15th, 2008, 01:16 PM
I like Spinrite. I've had varying results using v6. The first drive I ever used it on was not only totally recovered, but even useable again. Freaked me out. Other times, Spinrite yields nothing...
October 13th, 2008, 03:19 PM
That's not a good sign. Typically Ubuntu automounts a
PC's harddrives. And Ubuntu won't even load with the
bad drive installed? Run fdisk if you can get Linux booted
to find out the status...
October 11th, 2008, 11:26 AM
I think Gparted is too specialized (partitioning) for what you want. Like
keezel points out, Knoppix or Ubuntu would be good choices.
That can be tough. It's pretty much "command line"...
October 10th, 2008, 12:19 AM
Have you tried the Live CD yet?
I ran into a very similar recovery a month or two ago.
The chkdsk /r command failed and from a bootable ERD
cd, the NTFS partition had a similar 'raw' format, 0...
