I dont know if you can read the whole thread title, but what im asking is what are the odds that i can save my harddrive that I mounted in linux. The mounting part isnt the issue, I got fstab configured correctly, but before i did that I executed a #: chmod -R 555 ./D on it and let it touch the majorithy of the drive before realizeing what i did was probably not correct.

Right now I am running "chkdsk /f d:" and it appears to be doing something. Something includes correcting tables and "un-orphaning" files. What are the odds that i can get the data back? And if so how?

Error fixed.

chkdsk /f d: saved my a$$.

Lesson to be learned: "Do NOT exec chmod on NTFS partitions" :P