On Oct 5, 2013 1:05 AM, "steef" <debian.linux@home.nl> wrote:
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> hi folks,
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> my eldest daughter has an old laptop with windowsxp loaded on it. the machine crashed yesterday.
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> my question: can i use debian and the ddrescue-procedure to save the data of this laptop like i did about 7 years ago with a crashed slackware_hd??
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> google confused me.
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> thank you,
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> steef
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What I used to backup data from crashed windows xp drive was Knoppix 7.2 live CD. Backed up to flash drive then with gparted deleted partition and then was able to run Winxp disk. This was on a friends pc.
I run dual boot Windows 7 Pro/Xubuntu 12.04 on my main tower (Dell GX280, 3gb memory)
Robert