On Saturday 05 October 2013 08:05:32 steef wrote: > hi folks, > > my eldest daughter has an old laptop with windowsxp loaded on it. > the machine crashed yesterday. > > my question: can i use debian and the ddrescue-procedure to save the > data of this laptop like i did about 7 years ago with a crashed > slackware_hd?? > > google confused me. > > thank you, > > steef
Was the crash caused by the HD or any other reason? In any case your best bet would be to remove the HD, connect it to another computer, maybe using a USB-adapter and proceed from there on. If the HD was not the cause make an image of the disk with clonezilla before you proceed. Then mount it R/O and simple cp to recover the data. If the HD went bad then having the disk in a known good machine might better your chances with ddrescue - provided the disk still spins and the heads did not crash. Kind regards Eike -- 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/2309910.yY6FB36Imk@lxcl01
