Data Recovery Help

[Bob McClure Jr]

Any chance you could beat your mailer into submission and make it wrap
lines every 72 chars or so?  I'll reformat this.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:32:55AM -0600, Mugleston, Brad wrote:
> My son's college computer died.  He's got a lot of files on the
> drive he needs.  It's been years since I've messed with windows and
> file recovery BUT I believe I know how to do it using Linux 8^).
> I'm looking for a Linux rescue CD (probably and ISO).  I know there
> were some credit card once available and I've found those but they
> are very old.  Anyone know of a newer version, full size CD would be
> fine (don't have one of those neat USB things, yet).

All of the FC distro CD1s (and RH 9, I think) have a rescue function.
Just put "linux rescue" at the boot prompt.

You might consider Tom's Root and Boot:

http://www.toms.net/rb/

It fits the essentials of Linux on a floppy.

> I'll need it to be able to access an Windows XP drive(s)

If it's an NTFS filesystem, you may well have problems.  If it's FAT*
you're okay.

> and move
> the files across my home network to save someplace.  Graphical would
> be best as that way my son can do the work but if command line is
> all that is available he will survive - he needs to grow up
> sometime.
> 
> Also, some basic instructions would be fantastic as I'll probably
> just given him the location and get one of his friends to burn the
> CD for him.
> 
> One last thing - please respond directly as I can only send email to
> the list from where I'm at (I get all the traffic at home).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Brad

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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