> > I am NOT an expert, but I too am facing cross-platform compatibility > problems. Have you tried re-formatting to ExtFAT? I am currently setting up > file storage which has to be accessible by Linux, XP,and Win7/8, and MAC > and this 'seems' to offer an all-round-compatibility answer. > > It's a nice idea, but I'm trying to avoid just re-formatting since it destroys what was on the partition before - and I'm trying to access it for data retrieval.
> option is a netboot. Which would work, if the network card supported it. > > check out ipxe.org, you can get a bootable cd image there which will then > pxe boot your box for you. > > As mentioned - no optical (i.e. CD/DVD) drive on this laptop. Thanks anyway though. I'm starting to think this might be more trouble than it's worth here. I'd like to get the data back, but I think I'm going to have to accept the prospect that without getting into a proper *nix environment, I'm not going to be able to. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
