Anne Wilson wrote:
My main workstation is awaiting its turn to move to FC4, and was running
Mandriva. I now find that I cannot boot from the primary drive at all. It
looks as though something desperate has happened to the MBR, where lilo
lived.
Checking my data backup, I find that I have missed a whole, vitally important,
directory. I need to get that data to a safe place before trying anything in
the way of rescue.
I have got knoppix 3.2 up and can see the files. I've got a pen-drive mounted
as root, but can't copy the files onto it. Trying
cp /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/ /mnt/sde gets
cp: omitting directory /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/
I tried to do it with a gui, but 'kdesu konqueror' says that it cannot connect
to the X server.
I'm now desperate. How can I get those files onto my pen-drive?
Anne
Late response but here are some links that may help.
Data Recovery Myths
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/245
Hard drive recovery utilities: when you can't afford to lose that data
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2005/12/hard-drive-recovery-utilities-when-you.html
recoverdm - recover files/disks with damaged sectors
http://www.vanheusden.com/recoverdm/
HOWTO Recover Files from a Non-Bootable Windows PC using Ubuntu Live
http://jclark.org/weblog/Miscellany/Tech/ubrescue.html
Good luck.
