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Recently when trying to turn on the computer (win 7 64bit) it began to occur the legendary bsod making it to restart over and over. When trying to repair the problem the computer freezes on a black screen or when starting it normally, the blue screen attacks appears again. I took my pc to a shop and they told me that the hard hd (seagate 3tb) is damaged and needs to be replaced. So, after this I booted ubuntu 12:04 via cd and managed to recover the files from c: hd. However, I am not able to locate the partition d: to recover some movies that i had left there. Could anyone tell me how can i access the partition D: from Windows via ubuntu?

Another informations: a) I do not installed ubuntu, when i try it, this message appears :"No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu." - Actually i prefer not to install it if possible, because i'm not too familiar with this OS.

I think this is my last shot to recover those files, please help!

Thanks.

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Install ntfs-3g with sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g. Then run the ntfsfix command on your NTFS partition.

ntfsfix v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)

Usage: ntfsfix [options] device

Attempt to fix an NTFS partition.

-h, --help             Display this help
-V, --version          Display version information

For example: ntfsfix /dev/hda6

Developers' email address: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sf.net Linux NTFS homepage: http://www.linux-ntfs.org

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You can use a program called ntfsprogs. If its not installed, you can install it by, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Once installed, you need to find out you NTFS drive name, just do sudo fdisk -l, to find that out, once you know the name, then

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdXX

Make sure that you replace the XX with your drive's name.

Note: Whenever you're dealing with partition, make sure that you have a complete backup just to be on the safe side.

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sudo apt-get install testdisk

Then run it:

sudo testdisk

and follow the instructions. You must search for partitions and then write the changes.

Also thanks to answerers here:

When you can mount it you can also try:

sudo dd conv=sync,noerror bs=8k if=/dev/sda6 of=/home/backup-file

Then you can copy backup-file to external drive and later use it to get your saved data.

When later you want do that you would need to mount it, so run:

sudo losetup /dev/loop1 /home/backup-file

sudo mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/backup

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