Keppy wrote: K> If you are running Windows XP as the guest OS and value the information inside it at all, stop what you are doing and proceed to backup that information the best way you can. Why? I had it setup K> nicely when one day the virtual machine was killed without shutting down properly (don't ask how - shit happens). So you think it would just run scandisk or some other pseudo disk integrity K> checker, right? Wrong! After trying many many times to restart XP all I got was the infamous blue screen of death. No access to my data!! Whether you can access the data some other way I do not K> know. Maybe you can, maybe you can't. Perhaps you can boot from the Windows XP CD and attempt to recover that data that way. Who knows. All I knew by that stage is that there was no way I was K> going to risk my files with such as setup.
My experiences with Windows XP: A quite stable OS and with NTFS you�ve got a not too bad file system. Maybe you could take a look in the MS knowledge base for the message that appears in the BSOD. Sometimes it really helps, there is not only Bugzilla in the world ;) To get rid of your BS you should make shure that you have no hardware failure. Testing of hardware is not very amusing but before blaming MS you must be shure your hardware is ok. If you have an other computer with Windows XP or Windows 2000, plug the harddisk of the crashed one to it and find out if you can access it under Windows. If you can "stop what you are doing and proceed to backup that information the best way you can" ;) Run chkdsk (when it has not already done during boot process). You can also try a repair setup of Windows XP, in fact it is nearly a complete new installation but your software, data and user settings should stay intact. If nothing helps, take your gentoo live cd, boot from it and follow the installation guide. After that you will have no more problems with Windows XP. I assume that your Win crash lies back in the past but maybe someone can get help of my answer. BTW, since I am a fairly new linux user i have no idea what happens when linux crashes and what I could do to recover my data from a linux box. Any tips would be appreciated (a good URL somewhere for linux recovery?). -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen Heino Herrlich mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Bis zu 100 MB Speicher bei http://premiummail.yahoo.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
