Esau. Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Well, some may remember me saying I had a HDD crash before christmas. Well, turned out to be some serious issues - errors reading "unmountable boot device" and "uncorrectable sector errors" basically.Anyway, I tried every fix I could find online to no avail (and yes, I tried everything - 2 months worth of trying) aside from reformatting of course. So, after talking with a few tech support folks it came down to "sorry man, it's a lost cause - your HDD is failing or has failed." Pretty much no way to fix it. Recovery wouldn't be easy without paying for it, even then it wouldn't be 100% I was told.Well, a german trader friend of mine turned me onto Knoppix Live CD - a Free and Open Source Live Linux CD, with a boatload of features. You can also set it up to use off a USB flash drive (1 GB min. required), basically its an OS that runs off a CD/DVD or USB Flash drive instead of off a HDD.So today I decided to give it a go and what do you know, I can now access all my data! 200+ GB of live DVDs, 70GB of live shows & 50GB of mp3s moreless. Not to mention every program I have on my HDD. I can even go online with it if I wanted to. Now all I have to do is install another CDROM so I can use my DVD burner. Fuck I'm a happy soul right now! I'm glad I didn't fall for the "reinstall windows" advice which would have lost all the data. I'd say anyone who has ever expirenced serious data loss should download this CD & have a copy on reserve. Its saving my assets thats for sure.Time for some whiskey. Woo-hoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Oh man.......thanks for that link Esau and glad to hear everything worked out for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 I'll drink to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Congratulations on retrieving all your data. Tenacious 'Bamaman, way to go.Thanks so much for that link too. I'm going to d/l and burn a few copies. Later . . . Kanada Kev =8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 I'm bustin' right now. Paitence has never been a strong point for me but this time its paid off huge.Here's the link to the flash drive instructions.http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/01/usb-knoppix-510/I've also have this set up and it works just as good as the CD version. Highly recommend this program. Very user friendly.I'm outta here now for some drinking, saturday & sunday are recovery days (in a couple ways). Have a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 holy shit! That's craxy man! I'm going to download that and put it on this 4 gigger thingy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakis Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Nice! It would have been a real shame to loose that much music. Now enjoy the wiskey!cheers,Jake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backbacon Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Fuckin eh, G!!!! THe first beer tonight is in your honour for being so stick-to-ity and rescueing all that music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 congrats bro, nice worklinux programs have saved my ass a couple of times (long forgotten windows admin passwords can be tough nuts to crack)... great how they cut out the crap and just get to work... user interfaces are highly over-ratedchin chin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffhead77 Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 way to go Greg! btw We gotta get you up to the T dizzle to hit Stones Place (the rolling stones themed bar) I was tellin you about!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattm Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 Here's one major rule when you get a computer: Partition your hard drive. Most people leave the default of just C: drive. This means that if you have to reinstall windows, you wipe everything. If you take the time to partition your drive (it's really easy with partition magic) you can make a D: (or more) drive. If you have to reinstall windows, only C: gets wiped, whatever other partitions you have on there are fine (unless you really killed the hard drive which can happen). This means that a quick reinstall of windows and shabam, all the files are still there (the programs should still get installed on C: and will have to be reinstalled). This has saved me countless times. I've got knoppix and it's great but if you partition, you'll save yourself a headache later on. An even better solution is to use a 40gig or smaller HDD just for windows and programs and get another physical drive to store data on. That's the safest bet of all.Disclaimer: Like I said, if you really screw up the drive (or it gets physically damaged), you're up shit creek. If you only do something like delete the file/partition/boot table or even erase C:, you're fine.My two cents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baj Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 i remember you tellin me bout this on nye...good show greg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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