From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 9:55:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA0A37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.146]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id MAA25597; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:55:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id MAA17905; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:55:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:55:43 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: timothyr@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help Me Save My Laptop Files!e Save My Laptop Files! In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 timothyr@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote: > 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. But you already have backups since it was important data right? :) Use those. > 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? Can you boot into FreeBSD? If not then try hooking the hd up to another computer that is running FreeBSD and use mount_msdos -r to mount the drive read only in FreeBSD. Then you can copy the data without writing to it. If you can't mount the partition you could use dd to make a disk image copy of the drive and then deal with using it later. Or you could use fdisk /mbr to clear the boot sector, install the freebsd boot loader to see if you can boot into FreeBSD and mount the partition that way. > 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 Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message