Recover from system down status

[chris]

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 12:01 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 1 May 2011 21:29, PIYUSH SINGH <meetpiyush2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
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> If you didn't... You tried an operating system upgrade on a
> single-volume machine with vitally important files on it with no
> backup? Are you completely mad?
> 
> Using a live CD, I'd try to recover what you can, then unmount the
> volume, use fsck to repair it, then you /might/ be able to remount it
> R/W and change the permissions. I would not hold out a huge amount of
> hope, though.
> 
having had a similar issue in the past with power failures, combined
with my ups blowing up I did the following.
download a copy of partition magic.  burnt the iso using a friends
computer and recovered the important stuff to a usb key.
Sorry I don't have an url for Partition Magic, but a quick google should
find it.
 
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Cheers the kiwi