Re: [Sheflug] Data recovery

[John M Cooper <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 23:05, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been lumbered with the job of trying to recover some data from a hard
> drive and I'm struggling...
> The drive was on a machine running windowsNT as a slave drive and is SCSI. I
> don't have a machine with NT on it so I have been trying to get at it with
> Linux and, after trying three different computers - none of which I could
> get to recognise the SCSI, I have finally managed to get one to see the
> drive. However, when I try to mount it I just keep getting 'unrecognised
> filesystem' errors. The problem is, of course, that I don't know what
> filesystem it is likely to have (the other hard drive in the machine which
> had the NT program on was a FAT16 system and I can  OK).
I think that NT only knows FAT16 and NTFS so those would be the two to
try.


> Can anyone give me any leads or advice on this please and is ntfs, which I
> have tried but it also rejected by linux, a separate module which needs
> compiling into the kernel?

NTFS is a kernel option just like all the file systems. Depending on how
your kernel was compiled it could be compiled in or as a module.

#modprobe ntfs 

should load the ntfs module then lsmod should be able to tell you that
it is loaded.

#cat /proc/filesystems

will show you what filesystems are supported by the currently loaded
filesystem modules and compiled in fs.

john

> 

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