On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 03:43 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: > On Oct 5, 2013 1:05 AM, "steef" <debian.li...@home.nl> wrote: > > > > hi folks, > > > > my eldest daughter has an old laptop with windowsxp loaded on it. the > machine crashed yesterday. > > > > my question: can i use debian and the ddrescue-procedure to save the data > of this laptop like i did about 7 years ago with a crashed slackware_hd?? > > > > google confused me. > > > > thank you, > > > > steef > > > > > > -- > > 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/524fc84c.1000...@home.nl > > > What I used to backup data from crashed windows xp drive was Knoppix 7.2 > live CD. Backed up to flash drive then with gparted deleted partition and > then was able to run Winxp disk. This was on a friends pc. > > I run dual boot Windows 7 Pro/Xubuntu 12.04 on my main tower (Dell GX280, > 3gb memory) > > Robert
I've never used such "ddrescue-procedure", but with any live distro and sufficient hard disk space you can use: # dd if=/dev/sdX of=/media/yourmountpoint/backupfilename to extract and image of that disk to be worked on elsewhere. If you need to check which device is the primary disk use: # fdisk -l and look for previously known disk sizes. -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 -- 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/1381168345.13006.41.camel@tagesuhu-pc
