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Topic: rescue data from chinese fat32 filesystem

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goa

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Posted: July 26 2006,20:57

Hello,

I tried to use a DSL live CD for rescueing some data from my girlfriends laptop (Windows XP doesn't boot anymore).
The idea is to mount a USB drive (sda1) and the windowsdrive (hda1) and copy whats copyable.
In principle it works fine, the only problem is that she has a chinese (traditional) filesystem and if I use the automount tool, the folders/files with chineses names display as ?????, and I can't copy them.
I allready tried to mount the drives manually in a console with the option iocharset = utf8 (in fact I'm not sure whether this one is correct), , but when I do this and want to open the folder I get a permission denied error.
If I change the fstab and add this option, the automount feature doesn't work anymore.

Can anybody please help me how to rescue the data?

Thanx in advance

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Posted: July 26 2006,21:34

Can you zip/tar/etc the whole thing and copy those over?

humpty

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Posted: July 26 2006,22:51

it's a long shot but have you tried opening the directory with firefox?
e.g file:///mnt/hda1/

goa

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Posted: July 28 2006,19:42

First of all thx for your hints..
... but it didn't really help

I was continuing for myself and I had some partial success: If I boot only to runlevel 2, I succeed to mount hda1 with option iocharset=utf8, and using cp -r , I could recover part of the data. The problem is that the disk seemes to be slightly corrupted, and the copy process hangs on at one file that it doesn't suceed to copy.
So a new question : Is there any option one can use to autoskip corrupted files? Because it will be quite tedious to copy them file by file...
And why can't I mount hda1 using iocharset=utf8 when booting to runlevel 5 (6?)

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Posted: July 29 2006,01:29

It didn't help as in it didn't work at all?

You could fsck/chkdsk/scandisk your partition first.

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