Bob George wrote: > 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. I never sat down with a sector editor Bob. never had to. I have had dos drives that trashed the boot, but as I said, maybe you clipped it, all I hadda do was run sys.com to get it to boot. I dont think it is that simple with linux.
Then there have been drives, as I said, that had high ascii all over the directory tree. But again, I didnt need a sector editor, just a file manager like DF.com, or maybe even DC.com to run the scrollbar down thru whatever is there, and almost all the time, my own data is still in there. recovering any executables might be far more difficult, but since everything I use in dos is downloadable off the net, I dont bother. And of course, since hard drives have gotten so cheap, I use them to back up each other, so the only thing I loose is the most recent pending email and my Netscape settings. Trying to find these, or a tool to paste them into a new copy, has not so far been successful. But I am looking, and ordered three more distros to try out last night. Maybe one of them knows that users might already have stuff and settings on a Linux distro that they'd like to install on a new distro. This functionality is something dos BBS Termcomm/offline mail users are familiar with, for the same reason, that it is the stuff that hasta be updated most often. 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
