Burned a DVD from a Crashed XP harddrive for a friend , files where
dragged out of a XP harddrive into K3b on FC7 X86 _64 box, files where pictures and doc files, now putting the dvd into a XP box you can't read
titles on files, they are badly scrambled.
What Gives ???

You did not repair the damage to the files on the crashed Windows XP hard drive first, GIGO!!!

If you still have the hard drive available, google for Bart PE, this is a Windows based application that will fix (chkdsk command line) the corruption on the drive so one can pulled workable data.




FYI: (Garbage In, Garbage out)

I,m not a user of XP, but the data was readable when I dragged the doc. folder into Linux off the drive.
After I burned it I looked at it in Linux and I could read it with no problems, But the XP computer the other person put the DVD in has problem
reading it.
I not questioning what you said, but trying to clarify in my own mind.
I will check into this Bart PE boot disk.

I've done that many, many times; the method I've used (as it's the only one that's worked reliably) has been:

attach the drive to one of my machines: as a slave, via USB cable,
etc.

mount the thing as an NTFS volume via ntfs.ko with:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sd$driveNo$partNo /mnt/$mntpt

If you can mount the drive and it's accessible, then you should be ok; whenever I've been able to mount a drive, I've been able to read it. There are certain problems which will make the drive un-mountable; when you encounter them, that's when you need to either use a third-party tool or hook the thing up to another Window$ box: to repair it (the drive). After it's been repaired, you should be able to put it back in a Linux box and back it up (or just do it from the machine you repaired it on if it's got a CD / DVD writer).

If it mounts, I'll usually check to see if the filenames look ok and then copy it w something like "cp -a /mnt/$mntpt $SavedData".

I've had mixed results with FUSE and never did get it to work correctly all of the time; are you using FUSE or the ntfs.ko kernel module?

Are you sure you're working with an unencrypted, uncompressed, NTFS drive and that you've got the correct codepage installed?

Is it the contents of the files that are scrambled or just the names? Also, when you're saying "scrambled", if you do a directory listing, do you get nothing but unreadable garbage or is it partially legible?

You may want to try posting a small section of what you're seeing...