Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:49:50 -0800 (PST) From: <timothyr@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help Me Save My Laptop Files!e Save My Laptop Files! Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011270235140.9307-100000@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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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
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