In Windows, you could easily boot from a different Windows comp and add the "unbootable" HD as slave. You can then move your data off that HD.
Anyone know if this is possible with Linux as well? Randall > A power outage at last night zapped one of my linux boxes, now it > say "OS not found" when I try to boot. > > Ideally I'd like to get it to boot normally again without wiping out > the data, or find a way to get some of the data off before re- > installing the OS. > > I have a linux bootable business card that supposedly has > repair/recovery utilities on it that I am able to boot with. But I am > completely clueless how to proceed after that. This is an area > my "linux administration" books don't mention. > > There has got to be a book or a good web page out there on this topic. > How do I find them? When I google on "repair" and "linux" I get > massiveamounts of irrelevant hits. > > I guess I have to try to mount the hard drive and check it out. What > tools do I use? > > fsck? I find the man page rather obscure. The machine that died had > redhat 7.3 on it, I think I was lazy & had everything on one big > partition. > Dave > > _______________________________________________ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
