kenn wrote:
maybe it's time to give up and move on, rather than further waste
anyone's time ...
Well, sure, you _could_ do that. But you're missing out on a learning
experience.
but before I do, let me ask one more thing: since the
drive seems to be okay (I can see all the files when booting from
Knoppix), would it be possible to move the drive to a different computer
and read those critical files from there?
Yes.
Is there a howto that would help me do that?
Um, don't know. But the basic process is (assuming IDE drives), put the
drive in, making sure the master/slave jumpers are set properly, boot
up, then make a directory on which to mount the / partition, mount it
and copy the data. It'd go something like this:
mkdir old_drive
mount /dev/hdb1 old_drive
mkdir critical_data
cd old_drive
cat etc/fstab
mount [other_partitions_in_fstab] [wherever_they_need_to_be_mounted]
cp -vr [mount_point_from_above]/my_docs/my_critical_docs/*
../critical_data/
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Kent
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