Weather Banter - View Single Post

Tim · October 17th 08, 11:00 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

In message , Brian Wakem
writes
Keith (Southend)G wrote:

I have a problem Houston!

I have a major problem with my main PC, which is fixable but don't
want to lose data.
Basically, it boots up as far as the 'start windows normally' screen
etc and won't go any further.
It's Serial ATA 80Gig Hard Drive (Has the connection from the SATA1
position on the Mother Board0 and is a connector about the same size
as a USB.
Problem is I have an Easy IDE adapter, which can be used to extract
data off a disk when Windows goes wrong, but of course this won't fit
into the SATA socket on the Disk.

Also if I put the XP disk in to do a repair, (Not repair console) when
I get to the disk/partition bit. 'R' Repair is not an option, so if I
hit Enter it will do a clean install and wipe everything from the
disk.

Any ideas?

Use a live linux distro such as knoppix or mandriva one, they wont need to
use the hard disk but they'll be able to read it.

This may help.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?dis...n=systemrescue
--
Tim