Kent West wrote: > > kenn wrote: > > >> >> I did this, and I could see my mounted drive ... but if i tried to ls, i >> >> got mostly garbage, so i've probably done something ELSE wrong. >> >> >> >> I went back to the knoppix boot to see if I had further destroyed >> >> anything, but fortunately, everything there still looks the same, so at >> >> least I don't appear to have caused any further damage ... >> >> >> >> I realize, of course, that I'm into way over my head ... if I can't find >> >> some way to copy these files soon, I'm going to have to surrender and >> >> send it out to a data recovery company (as much as I hate to do that). >> >> >> >> > > See if you've got a Linux User's Group in the area; or maybe post your > > general location here; maybe one of us is close enough to drop in and > > take a look-see. > >
Well, I was determined to get out of this somehow, and I finally did. I learned a LOT about Knoppix as an emergency tool in the process. I realize that much of this is off-topic, but I'll summarize: 1. After booting from a Knoppix cd, I could see the folders on the dying hard drive but lacked the permissions to open them. I never found a way from the GUI, but by opening a console first (before using the GUI to mount the disk), I could copy anything I wanted to after issuing a sudo su - 2. I mounted the dying drive, along with a usb thumbdrive, and began to gleefully copy files from the hard drive to the thumbdrive and move them to my new server. cd / mkdir old_drive mount /dev/hda2 old_drive mkdir thumbdrive mount /dev/uba1 thumbdrive 3. After a while, it occurred to me that scp would work just as well, so I moved the rest of the files by that method. I want to thank all of you, especially Kent West, for your help and encouragement and patience on this. It WAS a learning experience, and I'm ever so slightly more knowledgeable than I was two days ago. Cheers. kennM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]