Warty install went very wrong HELP!!

nocturn ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Fri Jan 7 11:20:33 UTC 2005


baza Wrote: 
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:14 -0500, wallijonn wrote:
> > Boy, is your friend going to be mad at you.
> > 
> > It sounds like you wiped out his disk.
> > 
> 
> The really annoying thing is the data is still there. I've mount NTFS
> hda2 and can read his files. The only problem is windows wont boot.
> 
> Baza

I recommend very strongly that you backup his data now.
Maybe the repair goes well, and it is good again, but if it fails,
you'll have the backup.

BTW, tar can backup the entire partition, including windows as long as
you have a bootdisk to restore the bootsector.


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nocturn




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