Ken - if I am not mistaken - this sounds like another variant of what Kevin just suggested w/Ubuntu. I guess you were both writing up your responses at the same time.
I got the Ubuntu burned and ready for me - although - I am first going to try the other suggestion by Andrew - since I know that for starters it may be a little simpler than the Unix Boot/Live CD methods. But, I will probably end up doing these boot CD's... -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] - HD Problem & MANY Files Lost... Download Knoppix, burn a boot CD, and boot from the CD. By coincidence, the "family" computer that my younger daughter uses died this morning. I booted it up with Knoppix, opened the disk volume, and copied her homework from last night to another computer on the network. Ken On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there folks, > > > > I had this problem here with my work PC yesterday. I keep the PC on for > weeks - since I am always working on multiple things - and I like to be > able to go back in time in my VFP Command window to re-open prior > programs and screens and such... > > > > Well, I came in yesterday morning - and hitting Ctrl-alt-Del would NOT > work. I could NOT login. So - my Tech guy here just hit the Power button > to power down. But, upon rebooting - it wanted to run ChkDsk - which I > stopped it from doing (it would take too long - and I needed to get back > to work). So - yesterday - I had this one folder on my PC that I could > not access - and it claimed it had problems. Then - before leaving work > last night - I did a ReStart - so that it would run ChkDsk over night. > When I got in this morning - it was done - and I could log in. HOWEVER - > this one Folder is GONE! > > > > Problem is - it's a CRITICAL Folder for me! I had a LOT of my own stuff > in there (graphics that I do during my lunch times - and even all my > stuff for my eCommerce sites and work that I do on them). However, I > also have a bunch of work stuff in there. Small programs that I have > created in the past - to fix data problems for clients. Little tools > that I create and give to the QA Tech support guys here. But, worst of > all - this TimeTracking SW that all the QA Techs and Outsourcing people > use here - to generate and log their daily slipsheets - it's a small > system I wrote. Its on the Network - but, the last bunch of development > for it was done on my C: drive. I actually did it that was because of a > problem I was having a while back - which I reported here - and found > the only solution at the time was to work on the project on my C: drive. > > > > So - I am curious if anyone has any suggestions for me. Like good > programs that I could use to scan my HD and try to recover files. I > would prefer Free - or Trial versions - since they are too cheap here to > actually BUY SW! > > > > Thanks, > > -K- > > > > Developer > > Waitex Information System, Inc. > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a1409df1...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
