*I guess this is a continuation of my "Emergency" thread*. My friend is actually still redoing it still, but it would be amazing if we managed to get his term paper from his harddrive.
His Windows XP died (comes up with a DriveLock HDD Password, in which it just set itself up as we don't have it), but I wanted to try and recover his essay from it so I downloaded Ubuntu LIVE. I go into the console and followed some guides like this one Guide
In which I try to create a directory and mount the windows partitions. However whenever I try to do it, I get this error that says "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda" Any suggestions? Or is my HDD just !@#%ed ?
EDIT:
Using dmesg | tail it gives me the following
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Maybe the HD is f*cked up, but let's first hope that it isn't. Here's what you can do - get a utility called NTFSDOS and use a Windows 98 startup disk. Then use NTFSDOS and it should detect and mount all NTFS volumes. See if it works.
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The harddrive itself has a password on it, not to be discouraging, but you're not going to get around that. No OS/LiveCD will be able to simply bypass that. You're better off looking for some sort of tool/workaround for the password itself.
Mounting Windows NTFS Problem
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by iOsiris, Mar 21, 2006.