On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 03:43, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: > Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think > that the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. > My husband has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said I can set > up Linux on. He would like to try to reformat my drive and take the > time to figure out where we went wrong. In other words start from > scratch. > As I have no operating system ie: I can get to login: in something > similar to dos but it does not boot, is there any way to 1. login and > get my files > 2. Reformat the drive using particion magic (we have the program) > > Many thanks in advance, > > Alexa
If you've got a second drive you can stick in the machine, you can boot with the MDK CD and use the repair feature - which will let you chroot to the partition, then you can copy the files necessary to the second drive... If you take the drive out of the P2 and put it as secondary to the drive in the computer that crashed - that should do the trick for ya mate. -- Thu Dec 12 07:50:01 EST 2002 7:50am up 1 day, 12 min, 5 users, load average: 0.94, 0.85, 0.62 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | k�hn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen k�hn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Gr�tens*Liebe Gr��e*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Rube Walker: "Hey, Yogi, what time is it?" Yogi Berra: "You mean now?"
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