Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread jiri s.
Andrei Popescu wrote: Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le dimanche 1 avril 2007 12:55, andy a écrit : Hi all I've run into a problem: the win98 partition on my wife's machine ^ I guess all these partitions are on the same comp

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le dimanche 1 avril 2007 12:55, andy a écrit : > > Hi all > > > > I've run into a problem: the win98 partition on my wife's machine ^ > I guess all these partitions are on the same computer (?). First, you > have to

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread jiri s.
andy wrote: Hi all I've run into a problem: the win98 partition on my wife's machine seems fried with a very unhelpful error message. I can access it in safe mode which is not very helpful because I want to back up the info from there onto a CD and safe mode doesn't recognise the cd-drive (!)

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Mike Polyakov
I want to back up the info from there onto a CD and safe mode doesn't recognise the cd-drive (!) You can use Knoppix from a cd first to back up you data onto a cd, if you have a second cd-rom, or a flash drive (or floppy...). Then you can try re-installing windows or Debian without worrying abou

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:40:05PM +0100, andy wrote: > C?dric Lucantis wrote: > > >And no, reinstalling windows shouldn't touch the debian's partitions, > >unless you ask for it, but it will replace your boot loader and you'll > >have to reinstall it... > > Thanks for the prompt reply - this i

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 4/1/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cedric > > Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How > would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb > question, but I don't want to screw things up). And yes, should have been

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Cedric Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don't want to screw things up). And yes, should have been more explicit - the partitions *are* on the same box. If you perform a

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread andy
Cédric Lucantis wrote: Le dimanche 1 avril 2007 12:55, andy a écrit : Hi all I've run into a problem: the win98 partition on my wife's machine seems fried with a very unhelpful error message. I can access it in safe mode which is not very helpful because I want to back up the info from there

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le dimanche 1 avril 2007 12:55, andy a écrit : > Hi all > > I've run into a problem: the win98 partition on my wife's machine seems > fried with a very unhelpful error message. I can access it in safe mode > which is not very helpful because I want to back up the info from there > onto a CD and saf