On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:43, 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)
If you've got another HD you can install Linux on, set it up, and the one you're trying to get files from as either a slave or stick it on the secondary IDE channel. then you should be able to access the drive. I;m assuming of course, that you don't make a bott floppy after installing MDK. I cringe at using Partiticion Magic, as it's really DOS based. I have used it, but finds it likes to set Linux partitions as DOS. I don't recommend using it.
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