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Hard drive= dead I beleive
« on: September 17, 2006, 01:47:04 am »
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Hey guys, my hardrive with windows on it has a corrupted format, or so I am told, and cannot be fixed without reformating and reformating would lose all 90 out of 160 gigs of data! This includes 32 gigs of porn! I can access but not write it from live cd, is it possible to make a new NTFS partition and copy over my vital folders and make it my active partition?
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Re: Hard drive= dead I beleive
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2006, 04:09:34 am »
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I wouldn't recommend using another partition on the hard drive to backup, especially if you'll be reformatting.  Do you have another computer that's hooked up to your home network?  Try using the Samba network program on your LiveCD and copy and paste all your data to another computer's hard drive through the network.  Or disconnect the other computer's hard drive and plug it into yours as a slave drive, copying over all your files to it.  I once had to use Knoppix to reformat, and based on my experiences, I would recommend the network option over the slave drive method, since for some reason the version of Knoppix I used didn't have native support for writing to NTFS partitions, yet the Samba network program could copy and paste all my files to the other computer's NTFS partition.  Strange indeed.

Of course, if you can read from the drive, you can always burn CDs or DVDs for backups.  It would take many DVDs, and even more CDs, but it could be done.  You may want to omit the porn though if you choose this method. 
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Re: Hard drive= dead I beleive
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2006, 06:13:07 am »
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Quote from: dantheman on September 17, 2006, 04:09:34 am
I wouldn't recommend using another partition on the hard drive to backup, especially if you'll be reformatting.  Do you have another computer that's hooked up to your home network?  Try using the Samba network program on your LiveCD and copy and paste all your data to another computer's hard drive through the network.  Or disconnect the other computer's hard drive and plug it into yours as a slave drive, copying over all your files to it.  I once had to use Knoppix to reformat, and based on my experiences, I would recommend the network option over the slave drive method, since for some reason the version of Knoppix I used didn't have native support for writing to NTFS partitions, yet the Samba network program could copy and paste all my files to the other computer's NTFS partition.  Strange indeed.

Of course, if you can read from the drive, you can always burn CDs or DVDs for backups.  It would take many DVDs, and even more CDs, but it could be done.  You may want to omit the porn though if you choose this method. 
Well, we have a laptop with a 40 gig, my dad's computer with a 160 gig, but his is running a version of linux that is helplessly outdated, or was, We may have updated but I'm not sure. Well, thanks for the tip.
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Re: Hard drive= dead I beleive
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2006, 03:29:21 pm »
My dad has a neat thing on his laptop, where he gets to use his broken harddrive via USB port, even though he has a new one now. He can't boot from it, but he has access to all files on the broken drive. Maybe theres one of those for the PC?
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« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2006, 03:58:58 pm »
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Quote from: joeshmo on September 17, 2006, 01:47:04 am
This includes 32 gigs of porn!

Maybe its gods way of saying 'Don't look at Porn'  :-\
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