From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 2:49:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from socrates.Berkeley.EDU (socrates.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.25.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EDB37B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:49:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (timothyr@localhost) by socrates.Berkeley.EDU (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eARAno915570 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:49:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:49:50 -0800 (PST) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help Me Save My Laptop Files!e Save My Laptop Files! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Everyone, I'm in a real bind here and hope someone can help me find my way out of it. I have a Dell Latitude CS laptop, on which I run WinNT and 4.0-RELEASE. I went to upgrade some of the NT power management features, and my system was totally hosed. I went to boot back up, got BSOD, went to boot up again, didn't even get that far: "missing kernel DLL." To make a long story short, my partition table seems to be fscked up in every sense of the word, and I can't boot and I can't install anything. I can boot of a DOS floppy and see my precious D: drive where all my data is, however. I'm going to have to wipe the drive top to bottom and reinstall everything from scratch, but before I do I'd really love to get the ~1GB of data I have backed up. Is there some way I can mount the FAT16 D: drive and get a network connection up to copy everything (I have a Megahertz PCMCIA 10BT NIC), all without writing anything to the hard disk? I have the 4.0 RELEASE CDROMs and the 9/99 FreeBSD toolkit. One other catch in this whole thing is that both the CD-ROM and Floppy drives are external, and I can only plug one in at a time. Any suggestions at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Tim timothyr@socrates.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message