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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:55:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Tim McMillen <timcm@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!
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011271249150.10483-100000@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011270235140.9307-100000@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>

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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



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