Re: [Staffslug] Thank you Linux
I do that sort of thing regularly. One tip I can share for really
extreem circumstances (you think the drive is about to die) is to boot
the machine from usb or optical drive (toram is best if you have
enough ram). Take an image of the disk to a file on an external
storage device using ddrescue (not dd). You can then mount the image
using the -o loop option in mount and read from the image.
Or.. image to another drive of the same or larger capacity and use that.
Bingo!
Chris.
2009/3/1 Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com>:
My youngest daughter has Windows Vista Home Basic on her laptop.
Yesterday it died on her with all of her college work held on there
:-( So, as usual it was a case of "dad, can you sort this?" No
amount of coaxing with system restore or emergency disks worked. So,
I pooped in the Ubuntu 8.10 disk and fired that up. Fan bloody
tastic!!! Why didn't I do this to start with? I just plugged an
external HD in and transferred all of her files onto that. Next job
is to wipe this pile of dog do off and put a slightly better pile of
dog do on. She wants XP on it.... these young 'uns never learn.
Anyway, as always, Linux came to the rescue... yippee :-)
Just thought I'd share this with you all.
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire
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