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Data Recovery under DOS?

Posted on June 2, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

Hello, this is what happened (im running on a laptop)

-windows xp crashed (cant fix it)

- cant reinstall windows in another folder

all I want, is to recover my files, is there any way I can copy files in to my external hardrive from DOS? or anytype of connection from my crashed computer, to this other computer and send files through a USB cable or firewire??

or any live linux cd (not dvd) that will allow me to read my windows NTFS files, and then burn them into a cd?

i dunno… any ideas anyone? thanks!

thanks
thank you, but this computer is a laptop, and I think it will be hard to remove the hard rive just to put it in an enclousre dont you think?

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Writing Partitions on Linux?

Posted on April 27, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I’m Using Knoppix Linux and i want to write partitions on my A Data 2 Gb flash drive so that i can have a live cd on that drive. It is in FAT 32 format and the CFDISK program wont let me write partitions because it says Fatal Error: Bad primary Partition 0. Partition Begins with end-of-disk. My ultimate goal is to have linux on a pendrive to boot to other computers and the instructions i got tell me to write partitions.

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Data Recovery Programs? Suggestions?

Posted on July 13, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I’ve had my laptop since Christmas, and I recently kicked smelly vista into the trash and put windows 7 beta on. [Don't even think about saying that that's my problem, because it is much more stable than vista!!] So anyway, recently my computer wouldn’t boot after left unplugged and had the battery die, and I used an Ubuntu Live CD to try to copy my data out, but It was unable to mount the drive and said something about ntfs inconsistencies, corruption, or hardware failure [please! no! I'd rather data loss!] So, I’ve removed my drive from my laptop and will connect it to an external hard drive assembly to run chkdsk under linux’s reccomendation, and if that doesn’t help, I need some suggestions for data recovery software. Thanks in advance!

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Open suse. Data recovery.?

Posted on July 12, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I had a windows xp installed on dev/sda1(c: ). Then I installed open suse 11.1 on a different partition(sda8 or sda9 I don not remember).

Everything was working proper. I wanted to edit the grub settings to change the timeout and change default to windows. I did change the timeout to 25 and then checked something else(I do not remember now). When I restarted I got no operating system found.

Then I used the suse 11.1 DVD and did something, I got the suse back and also the failsafe suse in the os choices menu but windows was not there. I logged in and was able to access all the drives except the one in which windows was present(c: ). though I was able to see it when I navigated through /root but the contents were not present.

Then I used a live cd(not suse live). When I logged in, I was able to see all the drives also C, but when I tried to open it, I got a message saying something like “the file system was not valid or is not proper ntfs or something like that.

Is all my data lost? Can I recover them and make them proper. Do I have to make changes to grub.conf? If so please tell me in detail. I am new to linux.

Also tell me where I can learn thing like these.
I have a 40 GB HDD.

Can I use any freeware on lunux platform so that I can recover the data from windows partition?

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Best way to install Linux?

Posted on June 30, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I want to install Kubuntu 8.10. I have a live CD but i want to install it to my hard drive. I wanted to get an external hard drive to back up all my data on my current drive and install it to my current hard drive that I have now and make my computer a dual-boot machine.(XP and Linux) But my friend said I should buy another internal hard drive and install Linux on that. What would be the better way?

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