[Herefordshire] Installed new harddisk.

[Julian Robbins]

hi Dave,


Easiest way is to use Knoppix ! Just boot with it, let it find your 
existing hard drive partitions. Then right click the partitions it finds 
and select read/write mode, and mount them. Then you can copy the files 
to other HDDs  etc. Or you could set up the network card then copy 
across to another pc, or USB memory stick ....

These Bootable CDRom's are a godsend when things go wrong .....

Hang on. The only problem, you may well get is that if your WIN 
partition is formatted NTFS, that linux doesnt quite do NTFS write as 
yet. I think there is a driver in Knoppix called 'captive' that will 
allow you do just thsi. If its FAT 32 you're fine anyway.

Otherwise look our for 'systemrescuecd' another Linux bootable cD which 
I think has support for captuive on it and lots of other useful tools, 
though less easy to use than knoppix.

Good luck

Julian

David Shorthouse wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I just installed a new 80gig drive on my SUSE machine but after formatting
> the drive then allowing it to go to its default location I can now only log
> on as text..
> 
> At the time the /usr was the default setting.. after restarting I found It
> had removed lots of files that is meant to be in this filesystem."folder". I
> am now stuck.. I dont want to format the machine as I need to get data off
> the drive.. I've tried from the command prompt copy but this isn't
> recognised as a command.. I'm logging into failsafe mode now...
> 
> Anyone have any ideas how I can move my srv files to my windows partition.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave...
> 
> 
> 
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