[nfbcs] access hard drive

[Jim Barbour]

The point is that they boot off the live linux CD.  This gives them an
environment to work in that isn't making use of their windows boot disk

If they aren't a linux user, this does have a rather high learning curve.

However, I'm not really sure that this solution meets the needs of
Bryan's friend.  If I understand correctly, this friend has a
corrupted mbr and possibly a corrupted filesystem they want to repair,
so they can copy files from the disk.

Linux can rewrite the MBR, but probably not repair the vfat table.
My experience is that LInux's tools for repairing vfat filesystems are
not as reliable as the ones MS provides.

Bryan, can you explain further what the exact problem is?

Jim

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:32:41AM -0500, Bryan Schulz wrote:
> as most, he doesn't use linux.
> how is that supposed to work with windows machines?
> 
> Bryan Schulz
> 
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> >use a linux rescue disk and you can do it with that.
> >you can also copy and resize partitions with it.
> >so you could take all data from one partition and put it on the new drive
> >and resize the new partition.
> >
> >
> >2 choices are:
> >grml http://www.grml.org and system rescue cd
> >http://www.sysrescd.org
> >the grml is probably better as if you have a hardware synthesizer it will
> >most likely be able to speak from boot.
> >
> >the best thing about these solutions is they are free!
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> >Of Bryan Schulz
> >Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:11 AM
> >To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> >Subject: [nfbcs] access hard drive
> >
> >hi,
> >
> >a friend wants to know if there are programs that will recreate the mbr
> >master boot record and fat file allocation table so files can be
> >copied from
> >a hard drive that has not been reformatted yet.
> >
> >Bryan Schulz
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