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Hello
I have in my possession an old 200GB hard drive whose file system failed, leaving at least one folder inaccessible. of course, it is the folder where all my necessary data resides.
It is an old PC (bought in 2002) running on XP with an old bios, and for some reason, i was unable to boot on a clonezilla.
I used another software instead (puran utilities / testdisk) and i managed to create a bit-to-bit image of the disk, which i have in a file.
i used then some options to restore the files, and i saw the DOS log display all the files i needed, and when finished, the folder had simply disappeared from the folder tree! i might have used a wrong option, and the fix just removed all inaccessible files. fortunately, i have by bit-to-bit backup.
my bad, i let the matter stay for too long, and now my old PC won't start again. my first idea was to retry with filezilla, but if the PC won't start... when i say the PC doesn't start, it means even the fan doesn't turn on. i think i may have an issue with the power unit.
but, back to the hard drive:
so i copied this raw file into an external HD (1To), with the idea of running clonezilla from my laptop to select the file and fix the filesystem and create a working ISO image.
Unfortunately, it looks like filezilla only allows to restore images to a disk, and not to another iso image.
also, when i tried just in case, i couldn't find how to select my 200GB file.
i suppose that using the console and clonezilla in command line, i may be able to restore the filesystem, and this is where i need your help!
many thanks in advance!
etfa
So your bit-to-bit image was dumped by dd? If so, you should use dd to dump it to another hard drive.
Steven
hello steve
thanks for the hint.
i have the raw image on another hdd but i have no tool fix the filesystem and navigate inside.
What's the file system? If it's Linux file system, then you can boot Clonezilla live on that machine, enter the command prompt, then run "fsck" to fix the file system, and mount it to read the files.
For more info about fsck and mount, if you are not familiar with these two commands, you can google to find more info.
Steven
unfortunately, i cannot boot on usb on that machine (very old bios) and both dvd drives are out of order (many years since i used them)
however i can boot on linux on my laptop.
can i run fsck on a raw image ?
and anyway, file system is NTFS...
The fsck tool from GNU/Linux does not work very well with NTFS. Hence it's better to do that on MS Windows. However, I am not an experienced MS Windows user so I do not know if there is such a tool existing so that you can fsck the NTFS raw image.
If anyone on the forum has some experience, please share that.
Thanks.
Steven