Need help on recovering files from harddrive

[Kert]

I think my hard drive is going to die soon.

I have two partition on the hard drive and now only one is showing.

Now the bad partition only shows file in RAW filesystem format.

Does anyone know how to retrieve RAW format files from my bad partition of the hard drive?

The operation system is Microsoft XP Home edition.

 

[SpamYouToDeath]

Have you tried seeing if any other operating system can read the other partition?

 

[xiao_haozi]

Have you tried seeing if any other operating system can read the other partition?

Yeah boot from a live cd and mount those partitions. Should be able to see them from a live cd..
I would suggest using a linux live cd and checking for bad blocks and repairing them with fschk and then if you have a good drive to copy to, you can just dd everything over and you should be just fine.

 

[Kert]

Used Debian and cannot locate the partition.

It says I do not have permission.

How do I mount the drive?

Also I read on other website that repairing the partition may corrupt the files and I could lose all the data since the drive is in RAW format.

 

[xiao_haozi]

Used Debian and cannot locate the partition.

It says I do not have permission.

How do I mount the drive?

Also I read on other website that repairing the partition may corrupt the files and I could lose all the data since the drive is in RAW format.

Just go in as root and do it.
What I would do then if you are worried about that is to dd everything [ like this:
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/some_backup_drive_mount/sda1.image
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/some_backup_drive_mount/sda2.image
no need to mount it. ]
Then run smartctl on the original drive and see if it really is failing and what is up with it.
Then try to repair your original drive with badblocks and fsck. That way you have a clone of each partition is omething goes afoul.

 

[NeoSneth]

if it was NTFS originally, you will not be able to get it back with linux.

get a program called GetDataBack.
it will save you. Pirate it, pay for it, whatever. i've used this twice.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-products.htm

 

[xiao_haozi]

if it was NTFS originally, you will not be able to get it back with linux.

get a program called GetDataBack.
it will save you. Pirate it, pay for it, whatever. i've used this twice.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-products.htm

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php
But as for the DD you are copying byte for byte so it shouldn't matter as you aren't mounting it to make your 'image'... but yeah for the repair parts that's where that guy comes in handy.