hi
ive got a screwed up drive i need to get the pictures/documents off of.
it was a windows 8.1 system that got locked into safe mode.
when i connected it to my pc using an adapter for laptop drive it said i need to format the drive...?
i put it back into laptop and and trying to run chkdsk /f on it now... but that gets an unspecified error... and exits, cnanor access c: in the command prompt.
basically, what can i do to save these docs before i reset from image...
i tried the parted magic and the file manager gets an error trying to mount the OS drive... i can see/mount the usb ext drive i wanted to copy the files off to, but it wont mount the drive.
any assistance is appreciated.
windows explorer wont recognize the g: drive.
i was able to download a 'TESTDISK_WIN & PHOTOREC_WIN AND IM RUNNING THE PHOtorec, and it seems to be doing something, i assume its recoverinbg files as it is indeed creating many folders in the folder i created for it to copy/restore to...'
i dont think the disk is bad, i just think that it had a problem, then i put it in another pc and tried to take ownership to access files, then it seemed to get worse...
its a ntfs partition that seems to be recogonized but isnt readable for whatever reason...
i just hope the photorec process will include all the documents and pictures for the primary user folder