Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
Duncan Anderson wrote: Hello Graham Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk an access it through

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:35:31 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be No, no, it's just pining for the fjords... If you hadn't screwed it to the case it would be pushing up the daisies by now.

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Duncan Anderson
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Guys, First off, apologies for posting from a Windows box. I'm slowly rebuilding a system after a major hardware catastrophe (see earlier post). After looking at a few options for data recovery from a linux system, I finally opted for the System Rescue CDROM at

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-12-05 Thread Graham Watkins
Duncan Anderson wrote: Graham Watkins wrote: It may be a while before I get a new linux box up and running as I'm pretty busy just now. But when I do, I shall be moving up from 9.2 to 10.1 Community. I'm looking forward to it. Cheers, Graham When you do get around to it, have fun! cheers

[newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-11-27 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Guys, My Box died today :-( I was having some problems with a hard drive on the way out and was in the process of backing up my significant data when it froze and I had to do a hard reboot. After this, the machine would not start at all (It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be). With

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-11-27 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:35:31 + Graham Watkins disseminated the following: It is an ex-motherboard, it has ceased to be No, no, it's just pining for the fjords... -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 16:12:37 up 6 days, 7:22, 10 users, load average: 0.33, 0.13, 0.06

Re: [newbie] OT Recovering Data

2004-11-27 Thread Duncan Anderson
Hello Graham Anyhow, what I want to know is what is the best way to recover data from a hard drive that is about to fail, but contains part of my Mandrake installation (usr home) when I get a new box up and running. Can I install it as a slave disk an access it through a new Mandrake