----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Graeme
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Moving stuff around in DOS
> see here's the THING the OS wont start cos the hard drive is corropt or OS
is corrupt. soemthing like that. Maybe I am taking the wrong approach.
How do you guys suppos I should go about backing up stuff from the laptop,
when I can't even boot it up correctly?
>
I think you don't so much want to back up your hard drive, as you want to
rescue the files from it. A backup is something you do when things are
working correctly, not after they're broken.
There are probably various utilities you could try, but I just take a more
direct approach.
1. Pull the drive out and hook it up as a slave drive on another system.
2. Copy the files I want off the drive onto the "rescue" computer's drive.
3. Put the corrupt drive back.
4. Reinstall.
5. Copy the files back over via network.
-Kevin
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