Hi, I am trying to use by FC6 box to recover some data from a Windows XP NTFS drive that is giving a SMART warning. It is under warranty so all I want is to get the data off and send it in for replacement. The failing drive is a SATA-II Samsung 2504C. I can boot the dud system from a Knoppix CD and mount the drive and read most data. But I can't get it off, it is much too large to ftp to a remote site in the time I have available. I moved the drive to my FC6 box and rebooted. At startup time there are errors that I don't understand in dmesg, "SStatus 123, SControl 300" and the drive is not mounted. I have tried mounting it with , "# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sda1 -o force" but get various helpful messages that seem not to be applicable. Can anyone suggest an avenue of attack? tia, Dave
