on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:19:19AM -0500, Bill Benedetto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. > > This isn't a Debian question, per se, but the depth of knowledge > on this mailing list is quite humbling. > > I have an XP system that had a trojan file/program that I > couldn't delete from Windoze. So I booted Knoppix and when > Knoppix mounted the local filesystem, it mounted it read-only. > Since I wanted to rename that trojan, I remounted the ntfs as > read-write: > > # mount -o remount,ro /mnt/hda2
No you didn't. 'ro' is 'read-only'. > The /mnt/hda2 filesystem was fine but it still wouldn't let me > rename the trojan. > > So I rebooted the system (with the intention of going back into > Windoze) but I get a disk error and so Windoze won't come up. I > get this when the system tries to boot Windoze: > > A disk read error occurred > Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart > > So I put rebooted Knoppix again and now Knoppix boots fine but it > won't let me mount /dev/hda2. I don't have the exact message in > front of me but basically it said that the filesystem was corrupt > or that there was a bad boot block. > > I have a disk image from about 2 months ago and can restore that > - but I'd REALLY like the opportunity to get some data off of > this disk before I wipe it. My family has some recent stuff on > there that I'd like to be able to recover. > > Does anyone have any guidance for me for making the filesystem > mountable and/or bootable? If I can mount it from Knoppix I know > that I can copy the data elsewhere before I restore the disk > image. Backups. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Sick of mal-formed websites? A stylesheet to override poor design: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/UserContentCSS
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