--HPFS is/was the filesystem used by OS/2.

--As far as the NTFS stuff goes, I'm afraid I can't help much more; I don't use NTFS myself at all. I know there is a "captive" driver in the latest Knoppix rev that can supposedly write 100% safely to NTFS, but haven't tested it - that's pretty much all I know about it.

--If the data is really crucial and nothing homebrew seems to be doing the job, I'd suggest taking the drive to a data recovery specialist. It might be expensive, but it all boils down to "how much is your data worth."

Quote Originally Posted by Davidsa
OK here's my problem, more clearly:-

fdisk gives:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdd: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 15016 120615988+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 58168 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 58168 29316640+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

That is a hard disk partition NTFS formatted (btw, what's HPFS ?), as well as the other disk which is FAT32 and acessible.

But, on mounting them, the "mount" command gives:-

dev/hdd1 on /mnt/ntfs type vfat (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/fat32 type vfat (rw)

so the system is only "seeing" a fat or fat32 partition.
The disk does in fact have the WinXP recovery console installed which may well constitute another non-ntfs formatted partition, which perhaps is what this is.

But how can I get hold of the ntfs one?

Thanks again

David