Hey Richard!
You awake? If so, and you have a minute, I can explain on the phone better. Call me
if you can. (I'm still up) 344-5662. If you don't have time, don't worry.
Thanks,
Karl David Mortensen
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---------- Richard Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From: Richard Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbies] Help please!
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:13:45 -0700
More information would help: What happened to kill everything? Did everything
initially install correctly? Do you have data you need to save in your Linux
partition, or just in your Window's partion? Is the data that you can
currently see (as a tar file) your Window's partion data, or just your linux
data?
Unless you are an expert, I would recommend not messing with fdisk until you
have a good idea of exactly how to fix the problem. fdisk can make your data
unrecoverable.
If there is nothing on your Linux partion worth saving (considering that you
only installed on Saturday), I would suggest trying to repair the NTFS
partition with the Window's XP recovery tools (warning: I have never tried
this). Once everything is working, and backed up, you can try putting Red Hat
back on there -- assuming that you have solved the problem that caused it to
corrupt your drive in the first place.
Any other suggestions guys?
Good luck,
Richard
On Monday 10 February 2003 23:49, Karl David Mortensen wrote:
> Hi. My name is Karl Mortensen. I installed Red Hat 8 Saturday morning at
> the installfest. It worked fine, then died. It killed my XP partition AND
> my Linux partition.
>
> I've messed with it for TWO DAYS now, and am exceedingly frustrated.
>
> So here's where I'm at: I've made a partition with FDISK, and I can see
> the data and FTP it out to my roomate's comp (prepatory for A FULL
> FORMAT), but only a single .tar file, because some guy set it up for me.
> I'm trying to mount my hard drive in addition to the temp one he set up
> (that had the .tar file), but nothin's going. This is what I'm trying to
> do: mount /dev/hda1 -t NTFS /mnt/karl
>
> It's the NTFS thing it doesn't like. It says Failed: no such device.
> I've created the directory karl, and I can mount his temp drive to it, but
> I can't mount my NTFS one to it. I think it's a matter of the file system
> I'm trying to mount.
>
> Also, the file system that the temp one says is in use if I do fdisk -l is
> HPFS/NTFS.
>
> I would really like to be able to get my data off. What can I do?
>
> Thanks,
> Karl David Mortensen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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