BSOD unmountable boot volume error on my aunts laptop. Whats the best data recovery tool i can use?
Got an UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME
Aaron Howard
Charles Jackson
Deezer's Pointdexter (V 0.1.4) Recoverey Tool, or DPRT for short. Be sure after searching for it to download the version I mentioned. Take care, and good luck.
Connor Hall
I literally can't find it anywhere :(
Robert Cox
Let me guess, you tried Google? You must use a meta search engine since this is very old software. Dogpile is the website you need for all your searching errands. I have been using if for many years. Take care, and good luck.
Jaxon Parker
you guys fuckin with me
Henry Morales
not him, but dprt is the shit user
I have it burned to cd and on a usb just in case any of my friends/family fucks over their computers
Logan Nelson
is there any way you can send a link my way
Ian Clark
Linux
You can make an image of the drive, copy files off the drive, and do pretty much anything from a bootable cd or usb drive. I've used finnix alot, it includes testdisk and photorec.
Eli Gray
Well i tried an ubuntu live usb because i had one kicking around but it gives me an error when i try to open it up no matter how i try to mount it
Nathan Bennett
The partition is probably messed up bad enough to where Ubuntu won't mount it. If you don't know command line you'd be better off looking into ufsexplorer, they have a live CD that has graphical tools.
Jeremiah Perry
snag a copy of getdataback. here's a link to a torrent --
extratorrent.cc
Carter Foster
i know command line to a certain point, but if there is limited to no documentation it may be difficult for me.
I am looking into this now thank you user
Bentley Butler
System recovery Linux, Rescatux
Jace Baker
can this be booted into?
Asher Jackson
Rescatux is a Debian-based GNU/Linux live distribution that includes a graphical wizard for rescuing broken GNU/Linux installations. The available rescue options include restoring the GRUB bootloader after a Windows installation, Linux and Windows password resets, and Linux file system checks.
Caleb Hughes
Does it matter if the computer isn't linux?
Gavin Turner
distrowatch.com
SystemRescueCd is a Gentoo-based Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM or USB drive, designed for repairing a system and data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out administration tasks on a computer, such as creating and editing hard disk partitions. It contains many useful system utilities (GNU Parted, PartImage, FSTools) and some basic ones (editors, Midnight Commander, network tools).
Charles Hughes
use system rescue cd for restoring windows. at least you can access your files and copy them.
Landon Miller
no, you have to run it from a working windows setup. although it looks like you can't do this anyway, whatever you do, don't install it, or any other recovery software, on the damaged drive.
Adam Howard
linux rescue cd can recover files from an unreadable windows partition, so you can wipe and re-install windows again, and still have your files.
Kevin Edwards
that that hard drive out of that laptop.
put it into a desktop computer as a secondary HDD.
pull all files from it while it is connected to a second computer.
Gavin Richardson
just found a copy that you can boot into. direct from runtime and it's free!
runtime.org
Ethan Cruz
tried, i get some bullshit NTFS error
William Russell
Doesnt boot into good ol windows so theres no need to worry about that
Leo Cook
Ok guys this is the error im getting.
same fucking error as ubuntu
is hard drive toast?
Jose Lee
>is hard drive toast?
yes
William Miller
Hard drive might not be toast.
Sometimes NTFS takes a serious shit and can't be fixed by anything freely available (as far as I could find). I ran into a problem like this that a client had a few months ago and caved in to buy an EaseUs software key. Try their trial and see if it can read the drive.
Try running this before anything else:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
Elijah Hill
I tried ntfsfix already :/
People are saying that chkdsk /f will actually help but is it worth downloading and burning vista to a fucking cd like its 1940s just to run it?
Adam White
do you have the windows install disk? if so, boot it and run the repair tool.