Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:35:01 -0500 From: Isetr0 Savi <isetr0@sevicron.com> To: timothyr@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Me Save My Laptop Files!e Save My Laptop Files! Message-ID: <20001127103501.B10514@sevicron.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011270235140.9307-100000@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>; from timothyr@socrates.Berkeley.EDU on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:49:50AM -0800 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011270235140.9307-100000@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:49:50AM -0800, timothyr@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote: > 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 So let me get this straight - you have an NT machine and you want to load FreeBSD - without writing anything to disk - to try to salvage your data drive. Is that correct? If so... To my knowledge, such a thing couldn't be done with the generic FreeBSD - there may be some mini-distro such as PicoBSD( http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/) I don't know if it has FAT support tho. There are also other linux distros which fit on floppies and may be useful... My questions is - why not just reinstall NT to your C drive. If your partition table was messed up, you wouldn't be able to see your D drive. (Or am I misguided?) I know there are bootable CD's of NT... In any case, good luck - hope you save your files! isetr0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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