hi there just wanted to thank you for your input i really appreciate it.
but i can't get through to that site it must be down or something (code red) anyway. i was wondering whether or not it's possible to save a crashed harddrive i've searched practically everywhere on the web but cannot find any good docs explaining how to recreate a bootsector or even how harddrives and their partition tables work. if you couls help me this one last time i'd really appreciate it. cronus -----Original Message----- From: Tim Moss <debian-user@lists.debian.org> To: JNF Stoffels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sunday, July 29, 2001 7:19 PM Subject: Re: data recovery startup service >JNF Stoffels wrote: > > >> >> i've just recently acquired a copy of debian 2.2 r3 and was wondering >> whether or not i can use it to start an inedxpensive data recovery business. >> >> i live in south africa , and being one of the previously disadvantaged >> it's still hard to find work. >> >> that i swhy i would like to start something that is fairly uncommon >> around here. >> >> if you could point me to some open source software or even some >> documentation so that i can understand how such software is supposed to >> work and write it (it would be opensource of course) , i would greatly >> appreciated. >> > >You might want to check out http://www.lnx-bbc.org/. It's a mini-distro >on a business card sized, bootable CD-ROM (with some debian in it's >lineage). Amongst its many uses, system and data recovery are probably >two of the most common. >