On Saturday 18 February 2006 17:43, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:27:59 +1300 > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 18 February 2006 02:15, motivated wrote: > > > Wesley could you keep me updated on your rescue efforts please. My > > > ladys hd dropped dead (fatal error message, she is using windows), > > > but I now need to salvage as much as is possible. Naturally nothing > > > was backed up, then again, nothing is real important, it would just > > > be nice to save whatever I can. > > > > Try booting the machine using a LiveCD such as Knoppix. > > Try mounting the hardrive. > > See if you can access the files. > > Best of luck! ( You'll need it, it's Windows ) > > The problem with this approach is that you may only have one shot left > before the disk completely disgraces itself. I try and dump the > contents, then I can try and rebuild this at my leisure. Indeed and quite true. Two points to consider:- 1) I don't think they have another disk. 2) This level of system administration is probably not within their abilities.
-- CS
