Lost NTFS (Yet Again)

OK first time for every thing :) i have been a long time advocate of knoppix so much i have probraly handed out so many 100 packs of cd's with knoppix burns it isnt even funny :) at the pc shop i worked at i used knoppix to retreve data from either dead drives or nearly dead drives yet i nvr realy tried realy hard to recover data. if knoppix didnt see the ntfs data or fat i called death apon it or sudgested a profesional company to do the work.

now it is my turn..... I recently had to back up some data (about 225 gig's of crap) to one of my other drives (300 gig) due to a windows mess up. so i simply reinstaled a fresh version of windows on a spare 10 gig i had and started to transfer the files i wanted to the "Back up drive". all went fine and dandy..... untill i got the system back up and running and i started to add the other drives to the system. my "Backup Drive" seemed to loose its cookies. i have had this happen in the past several times with windows after a reboot the file system is just gone and to windows it only wants to reformat it.

so i boot up my fav knoppix 3.7 cd to transfer my data via samba over the network (easy right) nope knoppix 3.4 thru the current cd / dvd will not see the data on the drive nor can it tell what the file system is. I have read thru about 50 pages of posts looking for the command or "how to" to specify what the file system is on a drive. I am hopeing that with the all mighty power of knoppix i can retreve my data once again and hopefully buy another drive for my fedora file server. (she's out of space)

thanx for any help you can give!

later

dave
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well with the help of the oriley knoppix pocket refrence 9.99 i have won the battle....... um thnx for looking at the post i guess


any ways keep up the good work :lol:

Glad to hear you fixed it. I was going to suggest looking at Oreilly's Knoppix Hacks (I guess it's a related book). I thought may be you had a corrupt partition table.

Would you care to share with us what you did, so that we can learn something too?