main May 2009

main@lists.alug.org.uk

28 participants
23 discussions

System Recovery
by Steve Fosdick 01 May '09

01 May '09

I recently had a request from a friend to get his Windows PC working because it gets stuck at some point in the boot process. Assuming he wants to keep his data and the manufacturer have not had the foresight to create OS and data partitions it seems to me there are these options for this kind of task: 1. Obtain windows specific recovery tools to try to fix the boot problem without destroying the data. 2. Copy the data from the hard disk to somewhere else, re-install and then put the data back. For the second option again I can see two possibilities: 1. Take out the hard disk, mount it in a machine that works and copy the files onto the working machine's hard disk. 2. Boot a Live CD on the broken machine and copy the files over the network to a working machine. Of the above two I have done number one, moving the hard disk, before and it is usually pretty straightforward but in this case the broken machine is a laptop so I don't know what luck I'd have trying to mount the hard disk in a desktop machine. So, I'm contemplating the second option and I'd like to know, please, if anyone has any favourites or recommendations of live CDs that are good for this purpose or any other ideas or suggestions. Steve.

3 2

Syleham Location Info
by Steve Fosdick 01 May '09

01 May '09

Does anyone have either house number or the co-ordinates (either national grid or long/lat) of the village hall at Syleham, please? Steve.

1 0

Redhat 6.0 discs
by Adam Bower 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hi all, As part of the wanting to get a machine up and running with redhat 6.0 on it for Alug 10.0 I've come across a small problem... that being nowhere i can find on the Interwebbytubez seems to have a .iso of it. Can anybody help at all? Looking in the back of the bits cupboard etc. would be much appreciated if someone can find a (working) copy! I also find it a bit scary to see how much of this what I assume people think of as "boring legacy crap" is no longer available for download. I wonder if in the future it will be interesting for computing archaeology students? Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

11 17

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

main May 2009