2006/2/16, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off > your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to > save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do you have a USB > stick? Something? Anything? How about this: copy them off to > your KNOPPIX RAM disc, and e-mail them to the debian user group > as attachments, or at least to yourself. Then if things get > worse, you can pull them back to your RAM disc again, and > perhaps reinstall them. If you want a little insurance, > e-mail me directly, and I'll copy them off. Then if you > really need them back, I can e-mail them or send you a floppy.
Will do, tomorrow. My laptop is still networked (thanks knoppix!) so I can email partition/sector data. I presume that I should backup the the first sector of each partition using dd?
