"Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > With Linux, maybe because of the more powerful os, when > it crashes it has been impossible to remount the drive > with another distro to recover my own work on it.
IMPOSSIBLE? Here you go again Day, stating your own limitations as those of Linux. There is a VAST array of recovery tools that can mount ANY sort of Linux filesystem from a recovery disk. My favorites are tomsrtbt (floppy ) and the amazing LNX-BBC (bootable CD). The problem is, of course, that you have to bother understanding what you're trying to do and how it might be different than DOS. Yeah, they're not necessarily simple but not that overly difficult if you understand how the Unix/Linux filesystem works at a basic level. And they DO work very effectively. > [...] > For all I know, there may be ways to remount a crashed > Linux drive, Try asking when you don't know an answer, rather than just writing down as fact what you think you've observed. Yes, there are MANY ways to do this, and the Linux filesystems (ext2, etc.) dramatically INCREASE the odds of recovering lost data intact. > [...] with the > much more powerful os, there is much more complexity, > and a Newbie, who is most likely to crash the drive in > the first place, will be absolutely clueless. A newbie on DOS or any other system would be EXACTLY as lost. Disk recovery is not something most newbies should, or would want to undertake. The limitation isn't in the OS, it's in the user who can't/won't find answers, even when they're readily available. Please don't try to tell me that sitting down with a sector editor to repair directories or FATs, or scanning large hard drives for remnants of ASCII file is trivial, particularly if the drive's been in use for a while. Yeah, you may know it like the back of your hand, but a newbie won't. Same applies to Linux. Spend some effort learning, and you can suddenly work all sorts of magic. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
