Data retrieval from dead laptop

Erik Price eprice at ptc.com
Wed Jun 18 12:49:30 EDT 2003


pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> Will it just not boot?  I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix 
> on CD and attempting to boot from that.  My wife's laptop died not 
> too long ago with a bad hard drive failure.  I was able to boot off 
> of CD with Knoppix, which correctly identified all the system 
> hardware, allowed me easily start the network stuff, mount the NTFS 
> file system, and rsync all the directories she needed to my server 
> upstairs, and make it available to her via Samba so she could at 
> least access it from her Windows system :)

Man!  I wish I'd thought of that a few weeks ago!  I was in a similar 
situation to the OP.

I'm going to keep a copy of Knoppix in my car's emergency kit.



Erik




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