Re: [tlug] HELP! A possible Linux Rescue CD for my Japanese files!

[Patrick Niessen <tlug.niessen@example.com>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:54:13 +0900, Raphael Plasson
<plasson@example.com> wrote:
> mudrii wrote:
> 
> > For recovery NTFS first try use Windows Installation Boot CD and go to
> > console mode and you can fix from console using chkdsk   for more
> > information try chkdsk /?
> >
> 
> I would never rely on a Windows to recover a partition... and moreover,
> as it seems to be a hardware failure, trying to fix the filesystem is
> probably a bad idea.
> 
> Maybe to read the japanese partition, just booting on the Slack Live CD,
> try to mount your NTFS partition with "iocharset=euc-jp" as an option. I
> don't know for NTFS actually, but it allowed me to read my Vodaphone
> SDCard Files, which is formated in vfat with Japanese folder names. And
> try to laucng your environment with a japanese locale.
> 

Windows uses unicode as standard encoding as far as I know.