Laptop took a fall.XP no longer tries to boot but Fedora still does.Ran
chkdsk and it says unrecoverable errors.Also looked at repair install
but it needs to format as file system on main partition is"unknown".3 years
univercity work I need to access.Do I have any options other than tears....
Thanks

Take the hd out, slave it, or install in an external enclosure, to another
PC to see if you can recover data

Allthough I would assume Fedora gives some options to copy data to external
media?

"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Laptop took a fall.XP no longer tries to boot but Fedora still does.Ran
> chkdsk and it says unrecoverable errors.Also looked at repair install
> but it needs to format as file system on main partition is"unknown".3
> years univercity work I need to access.Do I have any options other than
> tears....
> Thanks
>

"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:8QLLi.22349$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Laptop took a fall.XP no longer tries to boot but Fedora still does.Ran
> chkdsk and it says unrecoverable errors.Also looked at repair install
> but it needs to format as file system on main partition is"unknown".3
> years univercity [..city?] work I need to access.Do I have any options
> other than tears....
> Thanks

If you can access the disk while it is installed in a USB enclosure
(as suggested by DL) then you can use xcopy.exe with the /c
switch to copy all readable files to another disk. If this means
nothing to you, ask a PC-expert to assist you. And don't run
any more diagnostic programs on your disk!

About your 3 years worth of university work: The iron law of
computing says that all important files must be backed up regularly
(e.g. weekly) to an independent medium, e.g. an external USB
disk. If you chose to ignore this law then you may have to consider
this unfortunate event as a very unpleasant reminder.

After eating the bucketful of humble pie...can see disk in usb enclosure but
cannot access it-just hangs.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...+service&meta=
http://www.datarecoverylab.co.uk/how...ocess_work.htm

....the Class 100 clean-room/box "take hd apart and get-data-off" ...looks a
bit expensive !

regards, Richard


"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> After eating the bucketful of humble pie...can see disk in usb enclosure
> but cannot access it-just hangs.
>

"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> After eating the bucketful of humble pie...can see disk in usb enclosure
> but cannot access it-just hangs.

In this case I would do this:
- Buy a $20.00 IDE cable adapter for your laptop disk.
- Take it to a friend with a desktop PC.
- Connect your laptop disk as a slave disk.
- Copy the data.

Warning: Be very, very careful when connecting your
disk to the adapter. If you do it back to front then you
will fry it. If unsure, ask for further details here.

points to ponder
If you can still run Fedora .........can you not from within Fedora copy
your 3 yrs of work to a DVD.............
We assume you have 2 partitions..one for XP the other for Linux...so are you
sure that that Repair Installation is seeing the right partition because XP
will not see a Linux file system but Linux will see an XP file system
or is this an OEM recovery CD which actually tries to set the HD back to its
original unpartitioned state??

peter
"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:8QLLi.22349$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Laptop took a fall.XP no longer tries to boot but Fedora still does.Ran
> chkdsk and it says unrecoverable errors.Also looked at repair install
> but it needs to format as file system on main partition is"unknown".3
> years univercity work I need to access.Do I have any options other than
> tears....
> Thanks
>

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:33:18 +0100, "Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Laptop took a fall.XP no longer tries to boot but Fedora still does.Ran
>chkdsk and it says unrecoverable errors.Also looked at repair install
>but it needs to format as file system on main partition is"unknown".3 years
>univercity work I need to access.Do I have any options other than tears....
>Thanks
>
3 years of work and no backups? That DESERVES tears as far as I'm
concerned.

"NoConsequence" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:33:18 +0100, "Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Laptop took a fall.XP no longer tries to boot but Fedora still does.Ran
>>chkdsk and it says unrecoverable errors.Also looked at repair install
>>but it needs to format as file system on main partition is"unknown".3
>>years
>>univercity work I need to access.Do I have any options other than
>>tears....
>>Thanks
>>
> 3 years of work and no backups? That DESERVES tears as far as I'm
> concerned.
>

The OP has already owned up to his his mistake. What is the
point of you gloating about it?