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Imagejustgags wrote in Imagelinux

Hard Drive Goes Kaboom

It appears that my laptop hard drive has gone kaboom. I get a blue screen of death with UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME or something similar everytime I try to start it up.

I'm trying to recover as much of the data as possible.

I am using a Slax Live CD and my NTFS partitions are mounted (yay!).

Unfortunately, quite a few (but not all) of the files/directories have an "unknown file type" when I attempt to copy them. An "ls -l" of the mount shows that most of the file attributes merely contain a question mark as opposed to actual information.

Does this signify corrupt data? Is there anything that I, as a user, can do to recover?

I had some important things on there.