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Knoppix is a self-contained linux distro on a bootable CD. It runs entirely off the CD and a ramdisk by default. Doesn't touch any of your hard drives unless it sees a linux swap partition, which it will use.
Joined: Wed 02-20-2002 11:27PM Posts: 867 Location: No one's really sure what became of Castorite after graduation
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FAT12? It's a floppy?!
Knoppix is a complete Linux distribution that fits (and remains) on a CD-ROM. It doesn't touch the hard drive unless you tell it to. You can use it to read your FAT or NTFS partitions.
so i used a program called R-Studio, and it seems to work great except i'm not allowed to recover files over 64KB. can anyone find this complete program for me off bit torrent or something? thx.
if the data is extremely important, and money is no object, there are companies out there (no names come to mind!) that you can send them the hard drive and they will get the data off of it. saw a demonstration where they had a hard drive in a fish tank and i don't know if it was just for exhaggeration or they could actually do it... but... yeah costs a lot though (like a grand) so probably nevermind pretend i didn't say anything
get knoppix from http://www.suprnova.org via bittorrent, or i have a cd you can borrow, in a console, try mount -t vfat /dev/hdXX /mnt/some directory... where XX is hd'a1' if the hd is the primary master and partition number one. 2nd partition would be hda2, for the primary slave and the secondary master it would be hdbX and hdcX respectively.
i would hope type vfat recognizes everything from fat12 to fat 32. i think it does recognize fat 16 and fat 32 so maybe you'll have luck with fat12. and if this is an ntfs drive, try mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXX /mnt/some dir. if it gives no error messages, all your data should be in some dir. post error messages, someone might be able to help.
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