Data recovery.

[Dre G.]

Its probably been mentioned but I missed it.
You can have a screwed up partition table which will make it unreadable
by any bootdisks etc (my experiences),  you can fix this if you know how
the partitions where layed out, and all your data will be there, 

There is also file recovery software out there but alot of it deals with
recovering files that where deleted by windows while in windows, If the
drive hasnt been used alot after deleted data (in windows) you can get
software that will recover all of the ~ files and reassemble them piece
by piece, I have used this software and had it recover about 60-70
percent of a profile even after a service pack upgrade was ran on the
box :(

This probably isnt helpfull to you but since the discussion was going on
I thought I would throw this out there.

dre

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:03, Kurt wrote:
> Are the fat32 partition(s) still there? If they are, I
> would bet that the bootloader is jacked up and that
> the 98 boot disk is probably old and no good. get a
> fresh one from bootdisk.com and try again. If you
> could boot partition magic, then surely your 98 disk
> is trash. I would just repair the windows bootloader,
> boot back to windows, and grab all files, then redo
> the linux install. Ive done the same thing before. But
> again, this all depends on if the fat32 partitons were
> wiped out or not. You would have saw them in partition
> magic if they still exist. And Im assuming that I read
> your post correctly, so correct me if im wrong. let me
> know how it goes.
> 
> 
> Kurt
>  
> --- Chris Wagner <ismgr at atchisonkansas.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Can't boot the system with a Win98 floppy nor will
> > the boot make it 
> > to the point a LILO prompt.
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Any suggestions/ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks, all.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > majordomo at kclug.org
> > Enter without the quotes in body of message
> 
> 
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Dre G. <enabled at linuxjunkies.com>