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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