SwiftDeath Posted July 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Well, I finally attempted it. I was doing pretty great until I messed up so I pressed clear all... (which I thought meant just the partition I added incorrectly.) And to my luck everything is now deleted. I am using my moms computer, before I turn off the computer is their any last hope to save my other computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 (edited) actually yes! Pick a part of the hd that either had nothing or something you can lose. Do an expert install/minimal. I just did one with ML-10-OE that is only 385 MB and it has X and icewm. Yours will need to be bigger though because you'll need drakconf/drakxtools, whatever (1GB should do). Just check the Individual Package Selection and deselect stuff like kde :P , server stuff. Keep Console Tools! Get it to fit in that 1GB. Then, somewhere, DiskDrake has a 'Rescue Partition' choice. See what it finds ;) If it fails urpmi parted qtparted parted is excellent at rescuing partitions and data. It is command line and is what I use. I do not know if qtparted has the rescue option. Tip: I always have a RESCUE install of mandrake like this. Nothing accesses it and it accesses nothing at boot. No other partitions or anything. This way, I can safely boot to it, not mounting everything and it's dog, for rescue purposes. I learned the hard way this is a good idea. Edited July 11, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Thanks anyways, I decided it probably just be best to reinstall mandrake anyways. I'll do a better job nextime. I installed it this time with a big /usr filesystem so no need to worry there. Thanks anyways BVC, I did gain some more linux knowledge in this failed attempt, and now my burner will probably work again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 I did gain some more linux knowledge in this failed attempt that's what it's all about! Means it wasn't a total failure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Yeah! And it also fixed my burner! And I also installed everything more clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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