[SWLUG] Re: Run from CD Linux

[Pete Prior]

I've never known anyone have so much trouble gaining access to their
wife-to-be's box.



Rhys Sage wrote:
> Thanks for everybody's help and suggestions.
> 
> The situation gets ever more interesting. The computer
> that has the data locked away on the hard drive is a
> Dell Dimension 1100. Today I decided to take the hard
> drive out in order to caddy it in order to get the
> data transferred. The first problem that surfaced was
> that the case was less than easy to open. Having
> worked out how to do that, I found the hard drive was
> screwed in from both sides. In order to access the
> other side of the hard drive it was necessary to open
> the other side of the case. That seemed to have been
> popped into place with lugs that were not supposed to
> be opened. Having sheared off all those lugs I found
> the metal in the case all wrapped around so the side
> was solid metal. Thus I drilled a hole in the metal in
> order to access the other screw on the other side of
> the hard drive.
> 
> Having done all that I found the drive to be secured
> by yet more screws - one of which was not visible and
> the other was covered by a metal strut that appeared
> to be spot-welded in place. I can't believe Dell
> builds a computer then spot-welds it so that it cannot
> be repaired!
> 
> So, I decided to try to load Ubuntu/Gnoppix from my
> CD. Duly, I ported the whole contraption to one of the
> few working power sockets in the good lady's home.
> That's when problem 2 ocurred - the power lead for the
> monitor has gone awol.
> 
> I shall, of course, be recommending to the good lady
> that data needs to be backed up regularly - something
> I have recommended before and installing a network
> with data held centally on the server, with each
> workstation network booted. I'm not sure how to do
> that though.
> 
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