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Alternatives to getting into my hdd?

El Guaraguao

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I have a desktop that hasn't been used in a while. Its got 2 HDD. 1 with the OS and the other one is used as storage. The main HDD, the one with the OS is fried, So I tried booting xp from a USB with bartpe only to fail. I kept getting "operating system not found" when I try to boot xp from the USB. I was following this tutorial to a tee LINK. The "storage" HDD is pretty much full, so I couldn't install a OS on it.

any alternative ways to backing up that "storage" HDD?
 
If you don't mind waiting for it to be shipped from China, there are dozens of cheap ones up on eBay for $3-4 shipped. Just be sure to pull the drive first to determine what kind you need (IDE or SATA).

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_BIN=1&_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A4044&rt=nc&_nkw=usb+sata+IDE+adapter&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=15&_sc=1

You can also just manually install the drive into a different computer and configure it as a second hard drive. The only real purpose of the adapter is to make it easier by using a USB cable to connect the drive externally rather than having to install it inside.

Good luck!
 
Linux live CD. You still need to come up with something to backup the drive to, but that'll let you access your data drive.
 
Yeah, either boot to a Linux Live CD or directly attach the hard drive to another PC via IDE or SATA cable (depending on the type of drive).
 
If you prefer a Windows-based live CD environment, use UBCD for Windows:

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

It is based upon a BartPE environment and supports both Internet access and USB drives. I'd suggest burning the ISO to a bootable DVD and not a CD - the last time I tried to burn the current version to a CD it failed because the image was just a little too big to fit on a CD.
 
If you prefer a Windows-based live CD environment, use UBCD for Windows:

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

It is based upon a BartPE environment and supports both Internet access and USB drives. I'd suggest burning the ISO to a bootable DVD and not a CD - the last time I tried to burn the current version to a CD it failed because the image was just a little too big to fit on a CD.

There's nothing readily usable from there. You have to compile the CD yourself. If you like, here's one I made a few months ago...

http://ubuntuone.com/p/9Cq/

Edit:
Here's a copy/paste from an email I sent out. I forgot I put some tools in one of the directories...

I included a folder of useful tools inside one of the directories. I was tired, and didn't feel like learning how to take the time to do it properly, so I put it in the SuperAntiSpyware language directory. You'll have to run that program before the directory appears though. Specifically the file is located here...

B:\superas\Language and the folder is called SystemTools That can be drag/dropped to your main hd once you boot to the CD if you want to use it on your regular install. That folder has a file called NirLauncher.exe If you click that, it'll launch a handy menu that shows all the included tools. Clicking the Package up/down buttons will change the tool set between the NirSoft tools, and Sysinternals suite tools. The tools can also be manually run by going to the individual directories. There's 1 other folder in there called processhacker-1.11-bin which won't show up in the launcher above. You can only use that by browsing to the folder.

Keep in mind that the above tools will light up your antivirus like an xmas tree. They're all clean, but due to the nature of some of the tools, they mimic functionality a lot of viruses have.
 
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There's nothing readily usable from there. You have to compile the CD yourself. If you like, here's one I made a few months ago...

http://ubuntuone.com/p/9Cq/

Edit:
Here's a copy/paste from an email I sent out. I forgot I put some tools in one of the directories...

I included a folder of useful tools inside one of the directories. I was tired, and didn't feel like learning how to take the time to do it properly, so I put it in the SuperAntiSpyware language directory. You'll have to run that program before the directory appears though. Specifically the file is located here...

B:\superas\Language and the folder is called SystemTools That can be drag/dropped to your main hd once you boot to the CD if you want to use it on your regular install. That folder has a file called NirLauncher.exe If you click that, it'll launch a handy menu that shows all the included tools. Clicking the Package up/down buttons will change the tool set between the NirSoft tools, and Sysinternals suite tools. The tools can also be manually run by going to the individual directories. There's 1 other folder in there called processhacker-1.11-bin which won't show up in the launcher above. You can only use that by browsing to the folder.

Keep in mind that the above tools will light up your antivirus like an xmas tree. They're all clean, but due to the nature of some of the tools, they mimic functionality a lot of viruses have.

The whole point here was to get access to a USB drive, which is something UBCD can easily do.

I never had a problem with UBCD. Yes, you have to generate the ISO. However, the installer will do it for you with no intervention if you want to build the standard CD. The main reason I mentioned it is that it is Windows-based - the shell looks (and works) a lot like Windows XP. It has USB support and even networking support.

While there is nothing wrong with Linux (beyond the inexplicable inability of the Gnome folks to actually implement proper scroll wheel support for a mouse), not everyone is comfortable using it.

Options - gotta love them.
 
Yea, but the link you gave was UBCD4Win. There isn't really anything immediately useful there unless you manage to find the link to the original UBCD.
 
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