2009/7/5 David L <idht4n@xxxxxxxxx>: > My 4 year old just tripped over my laptop's power > cord and it smashed into the hardwood floor. :( At this point, I thought your child was hurt! > The hard drive appears to have been somewhat > damaged, but still kinda sorta works. At this point I realised you were talking about the laptop hitting the floor. > But > it no longer boots to Fedora 11 successfully... it > gets a kernel panic, presumably due to a corrupt > or missing file. I have a Fedora 11 live USB. Any > chance I can use that to recover the earlier Fedora > installation without a re-install? Assuming you can get the data off, it's going to be WAY cheaper to put a new hard drive in that laptop rather than replacing the entire laptop. If a sudden shock caused data loss, I'd assume that the disk is beyond usefulness and thank my lucky stars if I could get any data off. -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines