Data Recovery Knoppix
Change File System without erasing data?
I used to have at bootup the error like reboot and select proper boot device or insert media in boot device. Then I flagged the HD with Gnome (linux partition software live cd) as boot and I had the message NTLDR missing. I booted with the Recovery Console and entered FIXBOOT. It said MBS corrupted. Filesystem FAT!! I had NTFS. Now in gnome it says fat16 and “Unable to read the content of this filesystem”. It can’t tell me how much I used and everything. What can I do to keep my data? I don’t care about windows booting up. I also have knoppix as a live cd to retrieve it but it mounts with weird symbols as filenames and no folders or anything right. PLZ HELP!
It ‘appears’ that Gnome won’t read from an NTFS drive. If this is the case, the only way around that is to hook the NTFS drive up to a system (read: Windows) that will read it and then burn your data to cd/dvd, format the drive in Gnome and then copy the data back to the drive.
You can not change the file system on the drive without losing the data, so be sure to backup the data first.
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