On Sunday 28 November 2010 14:54:49 Thomas H. George wrote: > Situation: My daughter works for a bank and must use Microsoft to work > at home. Yesterday the system would not boot - no safe mode, no > nothing, just return to loading bios. > > The machine is an HP desktop which came preloaded with Windows XP > Professional. As instructed we made a recovery disk and some backup > files. I now find the recovery disk will only wipe the hard drive clean > and reinstall XP. The backup files are a year out of date. > > At the time she bought the machine I installed a second hard drive, > installed Lenny and configured mbr for dual boot. > > Yesterday I edited fstab to include a mount point for the Windows > primary partition setting the file type to auto and was able to mount > the partition and read files. > > Hoping to save the recent information I tried rsync -vr /c /c_bkup. > This didn't work, many messages about incorrect nodes. > > Is there any chance of recovering usable files before we wipe out her > hard drive? > > Tom
I am not an expert on recovery, but I would get an other Hd and make a copy of her W hard drive using dd, then work on the copy. Then <tag: week-end> tell your daughter not to work for banks, they keep screwing us up, and tell her not to work home on week-end, it's a bad habit <End tag> Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201011281624.08625.tchate...@free.fr
