First of all sorry. But I can't find where to Search the forum. The only search I find gives me results of SourceForge projects, not this forum threads.
Second thing. My question/issue.
I've backed up an NTFS partition. I know wanted to restore it to a VM to get some files I've missed to backup manually.
When I'm restoring the partition, about 60% it just gives me an error because it says there are "invalid commands in image" (not the exact phrase).
I'm remembering that in the TEMP folder of that NTFS disk, there were two folders I couldn't erase since they had a file in it, with some Brazilian accents like ç or à in the name of the file. (Used scandisk but it didn't detected that).
So I'm beggining to think that maybe restoring those files abort the operation.
Is there any way to force skipping that?
How could I restore at least those files I'm looking for?
I think we need a tool that allows to inspect a backup like Norton Ghost explorer.
Thanks in advance.
David.
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Now I figured out that if I manage to decompress all the 2GB parts (.aa, .ab and so on) and concatenate them to one big file and run ntfsfix over that file, I might be able to restore it.
Anyone can help me with any way to do so doing it?
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No luck with that... I've already concatenated the files... uncompressed. And when uncompressing I get a bad CRC. (but the 53GB file is there).
When I run ntfsclone it stops, even with --rescue.
Running ntfsfix says
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Remount failed: Input/output error.
I've cat the image and the /dev/hda1 and it shows some ASCII data I can recognize, but I don't know how can I "navigate" the file to extract something. I guess I shall forget that data or become an ntfsmaster
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The image was done with 1.2.1-39, and I'm trying to restore with 1.2.1-53, I'm just saying that since maybe any of you can recall a bug or something... just in case!
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Well, just in case somebody falls in the same situation. I took the following route
After concatenating the files, de-gzipped, and try ntfsclone --rescue, I've mounted the partition in a Virtual Machine with Windows XP and used GetDataBack to rescue the files I needed.
I don't know if every file is readable but at least I could grab the necessary stuff.
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Hi,
First of all sorry. But I can't find where to Search the forum. The only search I find gives me results of SourceForge projects, not this forum threads.
Second thing. My question/issue.
I've backed up an NTFS partition. I know wanted to restore it to a VM to get some files I've missed to backup manually.
When I'm restoring the partition, about 60% it just gives me an error because it says there are "invalid commands in image" (not the exact phrase).
I'm remembering that in the TEMP folder of that NTFS disk, there were two folders I couldn't erase since they had a file in it, with some Brazilian accents like ç or à in the name of the file. (Used scandisk but it didn't detected that).
So I'm beggining to think that maybe restoring those files abort the operation.
Is there any way to force skipping that?
How could I restore at least those files I'm looking for?
I think we need a tool that allows to inspect a backup like Norton Ghost explorer.
Thanks in advance.
David.
Now I figured out that if I manage to decompress all the 2GB parts (.aa, .ab and so on) and concatenate them to one big file and run ntfsfix over that file, I might be able to restore it.
Anyone can help me with any way to do so doing it?
Maybe you can check this:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/42_manually_ntfsclone.faq#42_manually_ntfsclone.faq
Steven.
No luck with that... I've already concatenated the files... uncompressed. And when uncompressing I get a bad CRC. (but the 53GB file is there).
When I run ntfsclone it stops, even with --rescue.
Running ntfsfix says
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Remount failed: Input/output error.
I've cat the image and the /dev/hda1 and it shows some ASCII data I can recognize, but I don't know how can I "navigate" the file to extract something. I guess I shall forget that data or become an ntfsmaster
The image was done with 1.2.1-39, and I'm trying to restore with 1.2.1-53, I'm just saying that since maybe any of you can recall a bug or something... just in case!
Well, just in case somebody falls in the same situation. I took the following route
After concatenating the files, de-gzipped, and try ntfsclone --rescue, I've mounted the partition in a Virtual Machine with Windows XP and used GetDataBack to rescue the files I needed.
I don't know if every file is readable but at least I could grab the necessary stuff.
David,
Thanks for sharing that with us.
Steven.