After you've triggered the computer to run from a cd

You ask parted magic to load from the ram, this is the temporary operating system you'll see

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The little box on the right shows you the drives available. Even if yours is damaged, it might mount it

Posted By: pants on November 11th 2014 at 16:26:40

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Data recovery from an old, failed hard drive - can it be done relatively inexpensively (General Chat) - Adster, Nov 11, 16:10:41
- another trick I have seen work when the OS has failed (General Chat) - usacanary, Nov 11, 16:58:48
- If you can get a copy of parted magic, that will boot your machine up from the ram (General Chat) - pants, Nov 11, 16:24:06
  - Partition Magic you mean I think (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 11, 17:05:26
    - Dunt it get called both? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 11, 17:11:29
    - Ooooo get you and your fancy ways!! (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 11, 17:09:40
  - After you've triggered the computer to run from a cd (General Chat) - pants, Nov 11, 16:26:40
    - I'll give that a look, thanks (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Nov 11, 16:30:17
      - If the hard drive has failed (General Chat) - pants, Nov 11, 16:36:40
- I'm afraid so, the cops will have no trouble (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 11, 16:13:12
  - Messed that roight up (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Nov 11, 16:31:04
- I'm afraid d (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 11, 16:12:28

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