Sîmbătă 30 Aprilie 2005 14:19, Stuart Howard a scris: > I have a machine with some critical data on it that I need to recover > from a winXP installation that has gone bad. Can someone suggest a > procedure I could use to acheive this using a Gentoo liveCD? > > Machine to recover from :- > WinXP 1 partition NTFS with a network card [nb. SATA HDD] > > Machine's I need to transfer data too:- > Gentoo > or > WinXP > both connected on a LAN via a router. > > If possible things I could use suggestions on are:- > How to mount the NTFS partition when in liveCD environment? > how to transfer the data over the network? [it is large ~4Gb] > any other suggestions? > > I am a relativly new user to linux so dont be afraid to patronise me > with simple instructions ;) > > many thanks > Stuart
Hi, Stuart! I was in exactly the same situation a few months ago. The Gentoo LiveCD is deffinately not the best option for this. Instead I would use Knoppix. Or Gnoppix if you fancy. It has samba installed and configured with it so you can copy your data to the WinXP machine. Boot off the livecd, load the drivers (you might need to load some drivers aka linux modules to get linux to recognize your hdd), mount the NTFS hdd(s) (assuming it(they) is(are) still working) and copy the files on it(them) throught the network. And above all, make it look fancy & difficult ;) You didn't mention what kind of machine, though. You might get away with just taking your hdd(s) and putting them in another machine and copying them on the working hdd. This assuming you have a free machine capable of handling your bad hdd. -- Adi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
