I have a friend who's on and off again with Linux. He has a dual boot system. He's tried Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo. He likes Mandrake. Well He installed Red Hat Fedora Core 2 and tried to get back into windows and it wouldn't allow him to. Well normally you would run a dos fdisk /mbr but it still wouldn't boot. One of his files must have been corrupted. Well he used fixmbr and I think he really messed it up. We have since then made a windows boot disk. And it say it needs a hal.dll which is there. He is thinking it's Linux that messed up his system. I don't think so. I think he messed it up when he ran fixmbr. The damage is done he wants to retrieve the files, which we can see from a windows 98 bootable disk. So he is going to copy the 35 Gig to a 40 Gig and then try rebooting. Since we think it's a MBR problem now.
I know dd can do it but I don't know how to do the whole drive. I think it would be dd if=/dev/hda1/* of=/dev/hdxx/* . would this be the best method to do this or not. or is there a better method. I was looking at these programs. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ http://www.partimage.org/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l Suggestions. Tim _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
