Ubuntu – Using GParted to rescue data and format hard drive to NTFS

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I'm having problems booting to Windows XP due to bad sectors on the hard drive. I've tried fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console. That only made matters worse. Now I want to use GParted to attempt data rescue and format the hard drive to NTFS. Unfortunately, I get an error (Picture 2) when trying to recover my files, and the option to format the hard drive is grayed out. The only thing I can do is create a new partition.

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When I click "view" I get the "Unable to open the default file manager" error

Best Answer

For recovering data use Testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk There is also a nice step by step tutorial: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

To format, make sure that the partition is not mounted by running on terminal the command mount. If it is mounted, umount it with umount /mnt/path and then format with mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdX.

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