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Zachary Scott
Asked: 2011-06-02 12:13:57 +0800 CST

ntfsclone reports "Can't read sector at 470585344, lost data". How can I determine what file that is?

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I used ntfsclone from ubuntu to copy a bad windows hard drive to a new one using:

sudo ntfsclone --rescue -f --overwrite /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1

which produces the following:

WARNING: Can't read sector at 470585344, lost data.

There's only about 70 of these warnings. How could I determine what real files were affected using these numbers?

partition copy ntfs rescue-disk ubuntu-10.10

1 Answers

  1. On the hunt for the opposite, file to sector address resolution if you will, I came across your question. On a Windows box, using nfi.exe found in the Windows 2000 OEM toolkit: see http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-Barracuda/Tip-How-to-determine-which-file-occupies-a-particular-sector/td-p/35567

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