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Been playing with DSL for a while on lap top but now the home desktop crashed. The main drive crashed but it might still have my data on it. XP tries to boot and it just sits in the XP logo with the moving blue bar under it, so I firgure the drive isn't totally shot.....I was wondering if I can use the DSL CD and boot from that and save my files onto a stick or CD-ROM?!?!

Thanks in advance.
Bryan

It should work.

Boot up DSL with USB stick attached
Open emelfm
Go to /mnt
Right-Click on your drive's partition mountpoint (hda1? hda2?)
Choose Mount from the menu
Right click on sda1 (You usb drive is probably sda1)
Choose Mount from the menu
Copy files over from your partition to your USB drive.
When finished, Right click on sda1 again.
Choose Unmount from the menu
Remove usb stick from computer.

If you have at least 128mb ram and a working net connection, you can load DSL into ram (dsl toram), install gtoaster or gcombust from the repository and burn the files to CD.

Chris

I've had some issues in the past with using Knoppix to read from a NTFS filesystem, so you might run into these as well with DSL. Basically the system would freeze after doing 20-30 seconds of continuous reads from a NTFS filesystem.

I forget what I wound up using, but it was an extention that used the NTFS drivers from MS to properly read the disk. You may need to do that for this to work properly.

Quick Update....

I have a second HD in the computer that passed the diag.....booting from the CDROM, could I cut and paste the files from the bad HD © to my secondary.....

Thanks for all the responses already. The CD-Rom works fine so it should work from there.

Bryan

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