[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux to the rescue - again

[Gilbert Morrow]

Use Knoppix , DSL (Damn Small Linux) or Puppy , DEFT for hard core stuff ,
much better than the U junk , after all they where here long before the U .
Putting it in a drive bay or USB External Drive Enclosure is the best way .
Winders can be recovered , use to do it all the time back in the OC Gaming
days , funny how Winders sees the hardware but can't load drivers for it
because it knows how to only use the last known set up , will not bypass and
use default drivers the way Linux will .

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:

> Need to get a second opinion if this plan would work.
>
> History:
>
> I have a windows box that the CPU finally died in.  I've re-built the box
> and installed the HD from the old box.  It's a Windows XP install so, of
> course bringing it up was a miserable failure.  OBTW, the same problem
> happened a few months ago with my Linux box and I was able to rebuild
> without any headaches.
>
> Unfortunately my backup is a couple months old so I need to recover the
> data files from this box.  I have been able to get winders to run (limp
> along) enough to confirm that the file system is still in tact.  But, I am
> not about to risk using windows to get the data off the box.
>
> One plan is to attach a USB drive to the box and do an install of Mandriva
> on the USB drive.  Mount the windows HD and copy all of my files to the USB
> drive.  Rebuild the winders box, and restore the files.
>
> Another plan would be to boot into rescue mode from the Linux install disk,
> mount both the USB drive and the winders drive and copy.
>
> Anyone gone down this road before?  Have any gotcha warnings for either
> plan?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Greg E
>
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