On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Dan Smith wrote: > I have a NTFS related question... I bought a Seagate Xtreme > FreeAgent 1tb drive. My question/problem is.. I had partitioned the > drive as one chunk and > started to move data to this parition as my WD mybook is failing. I > plugged in the free agent yesterday and the drive would not attach > to the system. > Though yes, I am running Vista for the moment, that isn't the > problem. I think it was a bad drive in the free agent. My question > to the group is there any free/opensource apps to view the drive and > attempt to extract any files from it? Many *nix distributions include tools to read NTFS partitions. Without ruffling any feathers, I know FreeBSD has read support, with limited write support, for NTFS. Linux, IIRC, has full read and write support in the kernel. Give that a shot. Most LiveCDs should work. HTH --- Eric Crist