A friend just brought me a laptop where the hard drive "died." The NTFS partition is partly corrupt and windows is pooched, safe mode no worky. He says if I can recover his data I can have the thing. Fine by me, since I can sell it to a friend. According to diagnostics, the disk is fine, just the filesystem has problems.
I am using the UBCD and booted into PartedMagic and can copy files to a fat32 usb flash drive no problem.
The problem is my flash drive is 16gb, slow as dirt, and he has about 400gb worth of movies and music I need to save. I have an external drive with 700gb free, but it has an existing NTFS partition and personal files on it I can't move, I have very little to work with here.
So I am running into the problem copying the files to NTFS in linux. I tried clonezilla but it tries to copy the whole drive and says there that the source filesystem is corrupted, so I am down to hunt-and-peck mode. It will take me all day at least to move files from my flash drive to the external on my main windows laptop.
So I am looking for ideas here. I have a windows laptop I can have my external connected to, and move stuff with the slow flash drive. I am more of a windows guy, not that great with linux. They are both online, but FTPing through my DSL connection won't be any faster; maybe an ad hoc network could work. Or maybe I could get the NTFS write mode working in PartedMagic. Would need instructions on how to do this.
Any ideas?
I am using the UBCD and booted into PartedMagic and can copy files to a fat32 usb flash drive no problem.
The problem is my flash drive is 16gb, slow as dirt, and he has about 400gb worth of movies and music I need to save. I have an external drive with 700gb free, but it has an existing NTFS partition and personal files on it I can't move, I have very little to work with here.
So I am running into the problem copying the files to NTFS in linux. I tried clonezilla but it tries to copy the whole drive and says there that the source filesystem is corrupted, so I am down to hunt-and-peck mode. It will take me all day at least to move files from my flash drive to the external on my main windows laptop.
So I am looking for ideas here. I have a windows laptop I can have my external connected to, and move stuff with the slow flash drive. I am more of a windows guy, not that great with linux. They are both online, but FTPing through my DSL connection won't be any faster; maybe an ad hoc network could work. Or maybe I could get the NTFS write mode working in PartedMagic. Would need instructions on how to do this.
Any ideas?