Yep, did this just last weekend with a neighbor's broken XP box. It had a corrupt ntfs file system and refused to boot. Mepis and Knoppix refused to mount it read write but both were able to mount it read only. I used sftp to move files to another linux box in the room. If I lacked another box, I would have put another hard drive into save it.
If you are stuck on windoze, you then do what you have to and move the files back. I'm told that just having the files is not always enough to make things work. The guy who does IT for my parent's law firm told me it would take him a week or so to get everything back together if they bought all new equipment right away and did as he says. He had a year's worth of incremental data in horrid formats from word and something called "extreme server". Email was totally lost unless he could get the actual machines. Has anyone ever heard of taking a whole week to recover 3 gb of word docs and email? On Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:55 am, Joseph Zachary wrote: > Try booting from a Knoppix disk, and try to drag files found on HD to > another networked machine, or a second HD. Try it , if booting from knoppix > hard drive is not effected as OS is run from CD. I have had good luck with > this approch. Contact me if I can be of any assistance. Joseph Zachary- AAA > Computer Repair & Services
