Long story short, my Laptop HDD is broken or severely messed up. It will not boot, I get the "disk read error" message, and so I tried to put in the window's xp cd to repair it, but not to my surprise...the computer freezes or restarts as soon as the HDD light comes on.
SO....I got pclinuxOS and did liveboot from the cd. I was able to access the hard drive from there, but only some folders were accessible, others took forever to load until it got the message "stalled" or something.
I did manage to save one folder of family photo's, 8 megs took 34minutes to transfer onto my flash drive off of linux. It seems to be really slow since it's booting off of the cd...unless I'm wrong and its something else.
Anyways, I don't have time(regular hours when the store is open) to buy an enclosure and no I"m not going to order one either(I might not be home...blah blah, etc..)
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**YOU CAN IGNORE THE STUFF I WROTE ABOVE THE LINE, IMPORTANT QUESTION IS BELOW**
SO..I want to try something different...I want to TRY(keyword) and install pclinuxOS on to my hard drive and boot it off there while salvaging my files. I did a search but these oceans led me to reading abunch of specifics...
I was just curious if I need to do a small partition in order to install it?? (in all honesty I will probably attempt it anyways before anyone posts, esp since its 2:30a.m. eastern time)..
thanks all.
SO....I got pclinuxOS and did liveboot from the cd. I was able to access the hard drive from there, but only some folders were accessible, others took forever to load until it got the message "stalled" or something.
I did manage to save one folder of family photo's, 8 megs took 34minutes to transfer onto my flash drive off of linux. It seems to be really slow since it's booting off of the cd...unless I'm wrong and its something else.
Anyways, I don't have time(regular hours when the store is open) to buy an enclosure and no I"m not going to order one either(I might not be home...blah blah, etc..)
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**YOU CAN IGNORE THE STUFF I WROTE ABOVE THE LINE, IMPORTANT QUESTION IS BELOW**
SO..I want to try something different...I want to TRY(keyword) and install pclinuxOS on to my hard drive and boot it off there while salvaging my files. I did a search but these oceans led me to reading abunch of specifics...
I was just curious if I need to do a small partition in order to install it?? (in all honesty I will probably attempt it anyways before anyone posts, esp since its 2:30a.m. eastern time)..
thanks all.