Tag: data recovery
Data recovery from damaged hard disk
by Alessio Placitelli on Jan.10, 2008, under Tips and Tricks
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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