Nyx0uf's blog | SL-NTFS. NTFS Disk Recovery. Version 1.0 Author: Skip Frizzell < sfrizzell [at] canton-pc [dot] com > 1 Situation Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk errors and tries unsuccessfully to repair them. 2 Backup Securing the information on the hard disk is priority #1. The server has previously been configured with an NFS share, but the live CD doesn't have the NFS client installed. LiveCD$ sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common Now that the nfs client is installed we can mount the share and have a place to put the disk image LiveCD$ sudo mount server:/storage/share /media/server Now the share on server looks like a local partition mounted at /media/server we can create our disk image.
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