I really would like to know what would you say if you left your boss laptop on his desk running a defrag software (JkDefrag) and a few hours later he calls you shouting that it doesn’t boot anymore. Well, you would probably say more or less the same things I did (huh, let’s just not write them here :) )! For some reason the piece of junk (notebook) reboot itself while the defrag operation was in progress and most of the data was corrupted. Symptoms?

  • Windows Vista not booting after POST
  • mount command (Linux) not mounting Windows NTFS partition

While trying to resist the impulse to boot Windows recovery disk to run chkdsk, I stumbled upon a great live linux distribution called Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK from now on), which helped me to recover part of the lost/corrupted data.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage or corruption to your hardware, software or data. Continue reading at your own risk.

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