Help! trying to save my files in linux . [laptop hdd] [folders]
Q: Long story short, my laptop HDD is broken or seriously messed up. It will not boot, I get the “disk read error” message, so I tried to enter the windows xp cd to repair but not to my surprise . the computer shuts down or restarts when the HDD light on SO .
comes . I did live PCLinuxOS and boot from the CD. I was able to access the hard drive from there, but only a few folders were accessible, others took forever to load until he got the message “stuck” or something.
I succeeded a folder of family pictures, eight megabytes of storage took 34 minutes to transfer to my flash from the Linux drive. It seems very slow because the boot from the CD unless I . and I miss her something else.
Anyways, I have no time (regular hours when the shop is open) and no I buy a housing “do not order it either (I would not be home . blah blah, etc .) ————————- ——————— 977 503 ** 977 503 ———- —————————– You can ignore the things I wrote the above rule, important to know **
SO . I want to try something different . I want to try (keyword) and PCLinuxOS install on my hard drive and boot it off, while mountains of my files. I did a search, but these oceans led me to read the details . abunch
I was just curious if I need to do a small partition for the install? (In all honesty Ill probably try it anyways before someone posts, esp since its 2:30 Eastern Time) .
thanks all.
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Re:agrees with the 2 person above..
1) use a LINUX LIVE-CD to copy your files to perhaps an external usb drive ( usb thumb drive, usb harddrive, etc) or to another computer harddrive via copy-to-network
2) try booting LINUX LIVE-CD with DMA=OFF, ACPI=OFF, APM=OFF, SCSI=OFF ( in short…. "failsafe" mode )
3) once you've copied your data to a medium (usb drives, network drives), you could use any LINUX LIVE-CD with GPARTED ( GPARTED have just release a bootable CD that is under 50MB !!) and "delete" and 'create' partitions.
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Re:not sure who to set this up with anything but my old gentoo cd, but a live CD that allows you to mount with DMA off is going to work better.
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Re:Try following this guide for rescuing your system using Knoppix.
Your best bet is to copy the information you want to rescue from your local harddrive onto a newtork share.
http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/
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Re:Ok, I see, I didn't install it.
UPDATE…I got it to boot once, it took forever, for some strange reason it seems like my HDD is running reallllllllly slow and kind of spotty(doesn't run smoothly like it should, I hear the drive spinning and clicking on and off, like its taking breaks)…and I actually managed to get into windows(everything was horrendously slow, I can't even speak of it…maybe like 10 minutes to open "my computer".
I ended up flashing my bios back to an older version. Just before this started happening, I flashed to the newest bios release, but unfortunately switching back did nothing. Now its back to not booting again.."disk read error"
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Re:Don't install anything to that harddrive, every write decreases your chance of getting your data back.
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Re:oh forgot to mention..for whatever reason, something is jacked up with my hdd, and I'm pretty desperate enough to try and boot linux from a broken hdd..yes..just to clarify the nonsense approach of my question…
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