Ok guys, i really need your help

my english tutors hard drive has become corrupt. the filesystem is shown as RAW. XP wont read it, neither will PE builder. Linux will show the files, but wont install on the drive. I dont know what else to do. Ive tried slaving it, ive tried bootable linux...i really need help. she is willing to pay up to a grand for data recovery, but its not like she has the money, and if there is any other way, id like to help her out.

 

Hi,

What happend when you tried to slave it? Did it read anything? When you slaved it were you able to defrag on the drive?

~LuMa

 

Need more details. Type of HD. Type of system you are trying it on.

'XP won't read it' - What happened exactly? Did you look in the computer management?

 

slave the drive and try this
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2463

 

hard drive: maxtor 69gb
os: windows ME(preveiously xp, she went back, dont ask why)
fs: NTFS
it gives a can not mount boot partition error when trying to start up at all. when slaving it, xp shows it as RAW/unpartitioned

 

Try the program Kodo just linked to, that sounds like a winner.

Also, if the file system is NTFS, Windows Me will not recognize it. Are you sure she was using Me when it failed? Or perhaps the file system is FAT32?

 

you do realize that ME can't read NTFS!!
Put that disk into a PC with XP on it...

 

could be. i switched the arrangment of my optical drives so that the dvd drive is master and cdrw is slave. i booted linux, and am going to try and burn the data. its all there, and accessable through linux.

 

Or WIN2K if XP is not available.

 

I don't think Linux sees NTFS, it does see FAT volumes I believe. Someone else could verify that.

 

yes! yes! **** yes! (sorry bout the language) i was able to burn through linux, its all fine! yay!

 

and yes, i had been putting the disk into an XP machine.