On Monday 02 June 2003 02:46 pm, Cody Harris wrote:
> At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with:
> > > Ok, scenario:
> > > I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is "Pri
> > > DOS". I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log
> > > into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged
> > > up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing
> > > the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the
> > > cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question
> > > is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the
> > > network, and format without installing a full version of
> > > Linux.
> > >
> > > Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive,
> > > so i need a version that can either run across a network or
> > > from a disk.
> > >
> > > Any other suggestions welcome!
> >
> >Hey, Cody,
> >
> >I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please
> > help me out and forgive if I am way off....
> >
> >Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard
> > drive, or to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm
> > confused with your purpose, that's all. :-)
>
> Recover data
>
If all you are trying to do is recover data and transfer it to
another drive there is a handy hard drive adapter made that will
mate most laptop hard drives to a standard IDE cable. I have not
seen any of these adapters in the store but they seem to be all
over ebay for $5 to $10. That should allow you to plug your laptop
hard drive into a desktop and make the data recovery as simple as
drag and drop in windoze or ML.
Note if your laptop HDD is in a carrier you may have to remove it
from the carrier to make the adapter work but thats just a extra 4
or six screws.
I dont know if this is the answer that you were looking for but
this method has worked for me in the past.
Marc
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