cannot mount Crashed NTFS HD

[Kopiermeister]

Hello!
I had a problem in Windows XP (desktop-pc), the hd/System-partition is crashed, i mean XP cannot boot anymore, boot.ini is missing and other system files too.
So i wanted to mount the partition with ubuntu (put the hd in an external case that i can use the hd with my notebook via usb), to save my data. But everytime i want to mount the partition i get the fallowing error message:

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/227/bildschirmfotognomemounci8.png

Can anyone help me, please?

Regards

[LinuxRocks713]

What is your partition number? Please post the contents of


fdisk -l


so we can see.

Once you know, type this in the terminal:


sudo mkdir /media/winxp
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/*** /media/winxp #replace *** with the partition(sdX) or (hdX)


Hope that helped :)

[coolaj86]

Have you tried booting into the Recovery Console from Windows XP CD? You should be able to run chkdsk and maybe even replace corrupted files that way.


You can also force the mount from the command line even though the check failed. I don't know that command off the top of my head though.

[Kopiermeister]

@ LinuxRocks713:
sudo fdisk -l tells me:
Platte /dev/sdf: 163.9 GByte, 163928604672 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 19929 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdf1 * 1 16708 134206978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdf2 16709 19626 23438835 83 Linux
/dev/sdf3 19627 19929 2433847+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
i need the sdf1
so i typed in
sudo mkdir /media/winxp
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdf1 /media/winxp but i get the same error message as above.


@coolaj86:
Yes i've tried, but i had no success. chkdsk took too much time (1,5h for 18%). Just when i typed in a simple command like "dir" i got an error message, that the directory could not be shown...

There's something really wrong with the hd...

Regards

[Kopiermeister]

No ideas? Pls, i need help!!

Regards

[MasterNetra]

Why would you want to mount it in Ubuntu anyway? Ubuntu can't do anything to its contents. Can't really open,edit,copy,paste files or anything of that nature. Its just pointless.

However from the sounds of it. You probably need to fix the mbr (Master Boot Record) for that you will need the OS cd. Make your way to command prompt via the CD and i think the command is FIXMBR if not should be close. But note this will allow only windows to boot. So if you duel booting, have a install CD for the duel booting software your using to handle both OS's and re-install it after you fix the MBR. And it is possible a virus destroyed or corrupted your boot files and although FIXMBR can restore it, its recommend you do a complete scan of the virus once you can finally get into windows and remove it to prevent it from doing it again (or just do it to see if you have it.)

[molochi]

I haven't had any probs reading or writing to my NTFS partitions and drives.

Am using ntfs3g and fuse but I think it was part of default install.

[coolaj86]

Well, if it takes three days to run scandisk, let it run 3 days. At least then you're using a windows util to fix a windows drive. Patience is hard, but it's worth it.

Another option is to use gddrescue to copy the drive bit-per-bit and then run photoRec on the image that you create to rescue the raw files.

PhotoRec works on windows too.

But first and foremost I'd try using the windows scandisk. In the worst case that "Deleting orphan file" scrolls down your screen 50,000 times (that happened to me once... ugh... a very bad day) photorec will still work as file recovery.

Until you have an informed decision, do NOT play with your partition table.

Does that help at all?

[sisco311]

Try:
sudo mount -t ntfs -o defaults,force,umask=0002,gid=46 /dev/sdf1 /media/winxp

[coolaj86]

Why would you want to mount it in Ubuntu anyway? Ubuntu can't do anything to its contents. Can't really open,edit,copy,paste files or anything of that nature. Its just pointless.

Where have you been living? Under a rock?

I thought all those Ubuntu 5.04 cds were out of circulation like 3 years ago. Not only can you do anything you want with the files, you can even install Ubuntu in a windows drive via Wubi.

(Just goofy sarcasm, no offense intended)

[ahmedusthefirst]

hey guys, new user here. i have a similar problem to Kopiermeister, except my ubuntu partition is on an external hard drive and my internal windows partition cannot be mounted. i receive this error whenever i try to mount it:

Cannot mount Volume
unexpected clusters per mft record (-128). Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Invalid argument The device '/dev/sda2' doesn't have a valid NTFS. maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (eg /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? or the other way around?

note: i have three other partitions on my internal hard drive and i can access each one of them.

i've tried accessing the windows recovery utility, but it doesn't see the partition, so i can't rewrite the mbr and i can't access my data. i ran fdisk, but that tells me the partition table for my external drive and not my internal. please help, all my data is on that partition. thanks

[coolaj86]

Are you using Vista or XP? Vista has a known 'feature' which writes invalid MBRs.
Here's some support info on it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529

Can you give any background information? E.G. When the problem started happening, after what operation?

Can you post fdisk -l?

[ahmedusthefirst]

yeah, the problem started last night around 12, i was trying to set up grub on my external hd. i think what i did wrong was i typed setup (hd0,1) when i was in sudo grub. when i rebooted after that, my windows partition no longer worked.
here is my fdisk -l:


Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa315a315

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 7122 57207433+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 * 7123 9560 19583235 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 9561 9729 1357492+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

however, sdb is my external hard drive and i cant get a table for sda, it keeps telling me cannot open /dev/sda.

[coolaj86]

So what SHOULD your hda look like?

Something like this?

hda1 - Accessible NTFS
hda2 - Inaccessible windows drive
hda3 - Accessible NTFS

Windows stores a copy of the MFT, which is similar to a superblock in EXT3, at the end of the drive. It sounds like you've wiped the primary one out by installing grub over top of it and copying the backup one over grub could work.

I googled ntfs backup mft and found this, which looks useful at-a-glance.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Advanced_NTFS_Boot_and_MFT_Repair

Let us know how your luck fairs.

[Kopiermeister]

Jeah, i was able to rescue most data with the tool "GetDataBack for NTFS" !!
Thx allot for help!!

Regards