Situation: My daughter works for a bank and must use Microsoft to work at home. Yesterday the system would not boot - no safe mode, no nothing, just return to loading bios.
The machine is an HP desktop which came preloaded with Windows XP Professional. As instructed we made a recovery disk and some backup files. I now find the recovery disk will only wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall XP. The backup files are a year out of date. At the time she bought the machine I installed a second hard drive, installed Lenny and configured mbr for dual boot. Yesterday I edited fstab to include a mount point for the Windows primary partition setting the file type to auto and was able to mount the partition and read files. Hoping to save the recent information I tried rsync -vr /c /c_bkup. This didn't work, many messages about incorrect nodes. Is there any chance of recovering usable files before we wipe out her hard drive? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101128135449.ga2...@tomgeorge.info
