Data recovery.

[Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student)]

>I guess I'm wondering if the Windows file system isn't all screwed up 
>now, too, especially since he's getting errors when trying to boot 
>from the Win98 floppy.

Could you be more specific?  The Win98 floppy should be able to boot,
because it does nothing with the Hard Disk

>Could you hook up that drive as a secondary in another PC and copy 
>the files onto another drive, then wipe it and start over?

It depends on how badly messed up the partitions are, among other
things.

>Can't boot the system with a Win98 floppy nor will the boot make it 
>to the point a LILO prompt.

It sounds like the problem runs deeper that just the harddrive

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Wagner [mailto:ismgr at atchisonkansas.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:03 AM
To: KC Linux Users Group

Have a gentleman who asked me about a problem he's run into.

He has worked on WordPerfect for many years in a Windows environment 
and recently had received a copy of RH 8 from a son who installed it 
in a dual-boot setting with Win98.

Apparently he said he had followed all the docs and the prompts with 
this edition of WordPerfect install, but then he said he realized 
that the installer apparently tried to install its own version of 
Corel Linux in order to run WP.

Well, to say the least, it hosed the system as far as I can tell.

At this point, he's willing to scrap the Linux side, but all his 
files are on that Win32 partition.

Apparently another gentleman tried to use Partition Magic to check 
the partitions, but I'm not sure about what was really done.

To sum it up, it sounds to me like he's at a loss.

One quick question, in addition to ANY feedback you all have:

Any suggestions/ideas?

Thanks, all.

Chris