From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 17:00:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B14F1065672 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:00:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from traveling08@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmmtao102.cox.net (fed1rmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.241.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F118FC16 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20101003170057.UWHW23088.fed1rmmtao102.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:00:57 -0400 Received: from asus64 ([72.220.91.10]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id EH0w1f00K0DQbeo03H0wqB; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:00:56 -0400 X-VR-Score: -230.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=PyPhBskYoaHflNqPyNkGzxEHMB/j16Lz16eTzQWlCdI= c=1 sm=1 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=/nTdwXoUaSOHzX6NQnbKNQ==:17 a=lM4-zUH5AAAA:8 a=mNL-uGBdAAAA:8 a=4jF4EWDB85UkJ36GF-UA:9 a=4x2-QtjN7f1fTftXOQ3pAFgNhrwA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=XZENvOEyztAA:10 a=/nTdwXoUaSOHzX6NQnbKNQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700 From: Robert To: Robert Bonomi Message-ID: <20101003100051.23e2cc77@asus64> In-Reply-To: <201010031319.o93DJaDE005892@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201010031319.o93DJaDE005892@mail.r-bonomi.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: fdisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:00:57 -0000 On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:19:36 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > Which looks a lot better. I can mount /dev/da1 and it shows > > ~> ls -l /mnt > > total 70044 > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2560 Dec 31 1600 $AttrDef > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $BadClus > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4194304 Dec 31 1600 $Bitmap > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8192 Oct 1 09:09 $Boot > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Extend > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 67108864 Oct 1 09:09 $LogFile > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4096 Oct 1 09:09 $MFTMirr > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Dec 31 1600 $Secure > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 131072 Oct 1 09:09 $UpCase > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09 $Volume > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 45124 Aug 18 2001 NTDETECT.COM > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 17:29 System Volume > > Information > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 193 Oct 1 09:12 boot.ini > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 222368 Aug 18 2001 ntldr > > > > But I cannot mount /dev/da1s1 > > > > ~> sudo mount_ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt > > mount_ntfs: /dev/da1s1: Invalid argument > > what does 'ls -l /dev/da1*' show? > Robert Just what one might expect ~> ls -l /dev/da1* crw-rw---- 1 root operator 0, 129 Oct 2 07:46 /dev/da1 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 0, 92 Oct 2 16:43 /dev/da1s1 To all others who have answered: Thank you for all of your ideas. Warren, thanks for the link. I will be reading it and increasing my understanding of NTFS. I do not think there is anything physically wrong with the disk. I just cannot reach the data on it. Using "photorec" I have all files moved to a spare slice on this FreesBSD machine. It appears that there is less than 60G of actual data on the drive. Most of it is not needed so it will take quite awhile to sort the wanted from the unwanted. I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use "dd" to capture 250 gigs from the old drive? Using da1 and ad12 as the if and of will the result be an NTFS formatted 250g drive? Will I have the same results, i.e. able to mount ad12 but not ad12s1? Should I zero out the 250g drive first? Can "ddrescue" do a better job? This drive was used for a backup of of the Docs&Sets "folders" of the XP drive. It also had music and photo files that are also on the FreeBSD computer so they are not that critical. The Docs&Sets folders are the most important to recover so if I can access the data, I can burn it to DVD. Thanks again to all who have responded. Robert