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    copying data from hsf+ to NTFS

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by martinmach, Jan 17, 2009.

  1. martinmach

    martinmach Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    I want to recover data from dead MAC osx drive. i am using knoppix bootable cd to see and read from the hsf+ , but i cannot write into NTFS partition. how do i enable write permissions. i also read data cen get corrupted if i copy into NTFS, is this true?
     
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    It'd be easier to copy to a FAT32 volume, since the version of knoppix you're using doesn't have ntfs-3g, which is the module that supports RW on NTFS. The latest versions (5.1.1) have ntfs-3g, so you can try a newer image. Your data shouldn't get corrupted, ntfs-3g is stable now.
     
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    is there a way to find out corruption in data? i am using 5.1.1.
     
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    In Unix type systems you can run the cmp command against the original and the copy; but that should be done outside of the ntfs-3g layer if you're expecting it to corrupt your data for some reason. ntfs-3g has been stable for a couple of years now so the chance that you're going to suffer from corruption due to it is somewhat slim. But if you are suspicious of it anyway, you'd need to check the data in a known-good environment and use a program like cmp to check the data byte by byte. You can of course get the DiffUtils for windows which includes cmp to get as close to a 'known good' environment as possible. And there are a few programs to mount HFS+ volumes on windows that are known to be relatively safe (like macdrive for instance).

    Of course there is the obvious way of manually checking your files, but it depends whether you're dealing with human-readable data or binary files.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Jan 19, 2009
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