[COLUG] Recovering hosed Thinkpad R&R partition

[Steve Roggenkamp]

The other option you have here, would be to get an adapter so you can 
mount the laptop drive in a desktop machine.  These can be invaluable 
when you want to mount the drive on a desktop system.  I'm assuming you 
have a 2.5 in drive.  Look for a 2.5 mobile drive to desktop IDE adapter.

You can then mount it in your system, copy the data to a safe place and 
mess around with the MBR.

Steve

Jim wrote:
> David Riggs wrote:
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>> I hosed my MBR in the process of trying to rezise partitions 
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>
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>> Now it freezed with a GRUB error 22. I tired to 
>> recover with Knoppix, but had no luck.
>>     
>
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>> I have no CD backups: they don't give you any and this machine has no 
>> burner (I got it cheap from Lenovo, now just out of warrenty).
>>     
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> Having hosed the MBR, with the possibility of doing further 
> hosage while trying to recover, I'd backup the mess I have 
> with dd. Something like: 
>
>   dd if=/dev/hda | nc 192.168.0.whatever 2000
>
> from Knoppix could squirt the bits to some other box with a 
> big hard drive and optionally a CD/DVD burner. 
>
> Then I can relax while trying to figure out how to 
> restore or create the MBR. At least I don't have 
> to worry about screwing things up further. 
>
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