On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:54:49 -0500 "Thomas H. George" <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> Situation: My daughter works for a bank and must use Microsoft to work > at home. Yesterday the system would not boot - no safe mode, no > nothing, just return to loading bios. > > The machine is an HP desktop which came preloaded with Windows XP > Professional. As instructed we made a recovery disk and some backup > files. I now find the recovery disk will only wipe the hard drive > clean and reinstall XP. The backup files are a year out of date. > > At the time she bought the machine I installed a second hard drive, > installed Lenny and configured mbr for dual boot. > > Yesterday I edited fstab to include a mount point for the Windows > primary partition setting the file type to auto and was able to mount > the partition and read files. > > Hoping to save the recent information I tried rsync -vr /c /c_bkup. > This didn't work, many messages about incorrect nodes. > > Is there any chance of recovering usable files before we wipe out her > hard drive? > My recommendation would be to boot Knoppix from a live DVD (it really is a live-only distribution, it isn't maintainable). I recovered all but about 35 files from a Vista installation on a laptop which had been dropped, and the drive had hard errors, presumably where the heads bounced. Lenny is *the* server distribution, but it isn't especially up-to-date, and NTFS is a moving target. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101128164259.0b948...@jresid.jretrading.com