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post #1 of 12
2/11/04 at 12:56pm
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I had a Dell Inpsiron 8100 and the motherboard blew out on it yeasterday. All my school files were backed up... exceot for a big paper ! I tried booting it up in a fujitsu P1000 and it owuld have worked... except that I had the hard drive password protected and the fujitsu doesn't give me a password prompt and consequently the drive is unreadable. Can someone help me with this?
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post #2 of 12
2/11/04 at 1:32pm
Download knoppix Linux.
The trick is that the OS boots off of the cdrom and you have access to your harddrive.

http://www.knoppix.org/
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post #3 of 12
2/11/04 at 1:54pm
As a lesser extreme, couldn't you just boot off M$ cd and then do recovery?? I'm not an M$ droid, so don't know for sure.

WARNING!!! Mucking about with boot records is a good way to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know EXACTLY what you are doing. Since you've got a large paper w/o a backup, you may want to tread very cautiously.
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post #4 of 12
2/11/04 at 2:06pm
What is M$ cd ????
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post #5 of 12
2/11/04 at 2:28pm
I believe webweaver is using the contemptuous form of MS or MicroSoft.

The MS or M$ cd is the original installation or recovery CD for Windows or in the contemptuous, WinBlows.
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post #6 of 12
2/11/04 at 2:29pm
Microsoft
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post #7 of 12
2/11/04 at 2:31pm
Knoppix works great Allows you to get around almost any problems you may come across with access issues. Use it in school all the time
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post #8 of 12
2/11/04 at 2:31pm
oh, ok. Good idea.
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post #9 of 12
2/11/04 at 3:03pm
Sorry about that, force of habit I guess. Wasn't trying to bash M$, just trying to be helpful. I'm a Unix geek and accustomed to getting all my software for free. Ooops- there I did it again... But as long as we're on the subject, I'll share one of the best quotes I've ever heard about Windows from a consulting buddy of mine. This was a few years back when NT4 had just hit the streets and folks were oozing on about M$'s latest and greatest

Consultant: "You want to know what the best thing about Windows is?"

Audience: "What?"

Audience awaits the reply with bated breath...

Consultant: "How much money I can make fixing it"

Brahhahahaha!! Windoze, Winblows, Intenet Exploder... Happy I could assit expanding your vocabulary and hopefully provide minimal amusement value. Enjoy!

Good luckwith your recovery. I think you're on the right track. Lot's of OEM's cut cost these days and config the HD with a recovery partition instead of including actual media, so hopefully you've got a boot cd. Just be careful not to let WIndows try to reinstall itself.
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post #10 of 12
2/11/04 at 3:04pm

really

I had a CO named Captain Problem...hmmmm, wonder if they're related?
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post #11 of 12
2/11/04 at 9:09pm
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Brilliant, I didn't even think of that, you guys are great!! I just hope that this thing works. I have to go get knoppix from my schools tech department (They have it) because I don;t have time to download it. I just hope that I can get it in time for 7th period or im dead. Just have one quick question, if the hardrive has a password, does that only block the boot loader (or interfere with loading an operating system), or does it encrypt the hard drive?
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post #12 of 12
2/12/04 at 12:39am
Doesn't encrypt the HD.
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