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I have a Samsung laptop which received a bump yesterday. After that, the system doesn't load the Windows (Vista), the screen remains black, doesn't boot.

I burn a LiveCD with Ubuntu to try to back up my data, but was unsuccessful. My hard drive has two partitions: the main (C:) which has Windows and all my documents, and one another (D:) which I have some documents and files. This partition (D:) is right, I can mount it. I did a back up that files were there, really I want to recover 2 folders (30 mb, no more).

But I really want to do back up some folders which are in C: partition, but when a I try to mount I receive the message:

Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/ubuntu/C06E17086E16F6BE: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=999,gid=999,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda2"   "/media/ubuntu/C06E17086E16F6BE"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error  
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error  
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware.  

In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details.

and now, I do not know how to proceed.

Please, does somebody know how to do?

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The disk you have got damaged.

  1. You can try to save the data from it by running fsck on the partition (according to your post this would be ntfsfix /dev/sda2, with ntfsfix being the "fsck for Windows").

  2. Answer any question that appears (you most probably need to accept / press Enter everywhere).

  3. After this mount it as you wanted the first time, and pray that your files will be intact.

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  • Hello, I wento to the terminal, and I have writen: sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2 the message given was: Mounting volume..Ok Proccessing of SMFT and SMFTMirr completed successfully Checking the alternate boot sector..OK NTFS volume version is 3.1 NTFS partition /dev/sda2 was proccessed successfully I didn't accept any questions....Now what can I do? I came back to the Ubuntu desktop and tried to open the partition and showed the same error. Do I have to restore before the laptop? Thanks you for your reply
    – Carlos
    Jan 29, 2013 at 18:26
  • I'm afraid that this indicates that your disk became unusable. Also you might want to wait with accepting an answer and see if it actually helps before an accept.
    – Wolfer
    Jan 29, 2013 at 18:57

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