Smith, Herb wrote:
All,
My wife has a Dell set up as a dual boot with Fedora 6 and Windows XP.
Over the weekend a shutdown attempt went awry and something got
corrupted on her machine. Neither Fedora or Windows would boot. Fedora
would get past GRUB, but hang at the second step in the detailed boot
process. Windows would also hang somewhere.
I gave her the FC10 LiveCD to boot from. She was able to do so and used
the Logical Volume Management tool to mount both the Linux partition and
the NTFS partition. She was then able to remove all her files off to a
USB disk. She has now installed FC10 and is rebuilding her development
environment (she did not reinstall Windoze..).
The LiveCD proved to be a very useful tool to enable her to recover her
files. There may have been another way to recover from this, but since
Windoze was also hosed (even worse than it typically is... ) it felt
like there might not have been much that could have been done.
It was true in the past that the first CD of the CD install set would function
as a rescue disk, so one more tool to try if needed.
There was one significant difference between Live and rescue, but I can't
remember it. Perhaps someone will be clever and remind me...
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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