On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to all of you! You are my heros this evening!
Klaus Knopper and Linus Torvalds desrve some share of our collegtive
thanks for giving us the tools.
In addition to the excellent and intuitive Knoppix, there are other
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 20:13, Bill McGonigle wrote:
So, one thing I like to do is to create a disk image of the damaged
disk before trying anything else. That way you can go back if
'recovery' attempts do more damage than good. This is largely a
question of what your data is worth and
dd methods really don't work that well, at least not wth a suspect
drive.
dd generally works with healthy drives but I've not had great
luck with it when even one sector is bad, so I've been using
dd_rescue (Debian pkg is named ddrescue, RPM equiv unknown)
which has features intended for such
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 08:16 -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 20:13, Bill McGonigle wrote:
So, one thing I like to do is to create a disk image of the damaged
disk before trying anything else. That way you can go back if
'recovery' attempts do more damage than
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/myusbdisk/my_hosed_xp_disk.dd bs=8M
conv=noerror,sync
There's also a couple of tools that improve on this concept.
dd_rescue approaches the bad block problem more sophisticatedly,
varying block
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
To move a partition from one disk to another, I was using dd (and sometimes
just cat) with bzip2 and netcat to rip an image from one disk and dump it to
another disk in another laptop in realtime. I found that while most of the
filesystem arrived at its
I realize this isn't a Linux question, but maybe there's a Linux answer ;)
I have a Dell laptop, that should be running XP, and is less than a year old.
This morning, it decided that there was a file missing and it won't completely
boot. It doesn't even want to do a SAFE boot. I put in XP's
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 14:25 -0400, Peg Harris wrote:
I realize this isn't a Linux question, but maybe there's a Linux
answer ;)
I have a Dell laptop, that should be running XP, and is less than a
year old. This morning, it decided that there was a file missing and
it won't completely
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:33, Coleman Kane wrote:
You may want to look into KNOPPIX:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Seconded. There's also a tool out there called the Ultimate Boot CD for
Windows (http://www.ubcd4win.com) that you can build. It's not
straightforward how
Each answer first:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since this machine has the ability to boot off a USB device or a CD, I
wonder if I can boot up something else that will see all of my other disks ...
Yup. As others have suggested, one of the numerous
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 14:54 -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:33, Coleman Kane wrote:
You may want to look into KNOPPIX:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Seconded.
At this point the Ubuntu install DVD's will boot a live Linux session
with
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:09 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
Each answer first:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since this machine has the ability to boot off a USB device or a CD, I
wonder if I can boot up something else that will see all of my other disks
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:45:33 -0400,
Jarod Wilson wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:09 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Since this machine has the ability to boot off a USB device or a
CD, I wonder if I can boot up something
On Aug 20, 2008, at 14:25, Peg Harris wrote:
Since this machine has the ability to boot off a USB device or a
CD, I wonder if I can boot up something else that will see all of
my other disks, and let me copy my XP files onto my USB drive
before I end up shipping this machine back to
!
Thanks again.
Peg
- Original Message -
From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Booting NOT-Windows
On Aug 20, 2008, at 14:25, Peg Harris wrote:
Since this machine
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