laptop to a service center.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "brobborb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Moving stuff around in DOS
> How can i pull a laptop drive out? thats crazy! haha
>
>
> ----- 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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