hi,
recently my friend ran into a problem..he had three NTFS partitions on his computer running windows2000 server..after a reinstall his E: drive would not open up though it was shown in his "My Computer" ..an error message "file system may be corrupt" was displayed..out of curiosity i plugged that hard disk into my computer runnig Red Hat linux 7.3 ..i was able to mount that partition under linux..moreover i could also access some of the files..i copied as much as i could onto a FAT32 partition on my hard disk..however i was unable to copy a few files which were important..while trying to copy those i got an I/O read error..

is there any way (some tool perhaps) i can get back the remaining files?

if linux could identify and even open up files on a windows partition which windows could not even identify as its own then i am sure that some more could be done from linux..this is very important for me and if there are anyone who has been through such a situation then your tips are valuable and welcome..i am even ready to go to the extend of writing a program myself..however i dont know where to start ( very funny)..

thank you all for your time..