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| 1300451 | 2012-09-23 23:50:00 | Nick, any progress? You could boot from the Linux DVD and reinstall grub from there you know? community.linuxmint.com this will remove bcd and put GRUB in its place but you should still be able to boot into Windows as well. If you can't then repairing the bcd bootloader is easy enough. www.howtogeek.com Progress - I guess. I went through those steps, rebooted, and got the same thing as before. I've now decided just to reinstall linux mint from scratch, but first have another question. I have a couple of docs on my mint partition I hadn't backed up, is it possible to get those off? Windows doesn't see the partition, and I've googled myself to death here. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300452 | 2012-09-24 00:06:00 | Progress - I guess. I went through those steps, rebooted, and got the same thing as before. I've now decided just to reinstall linux mint from scratch, but first have another question. I have a couple of docs on my mint partition I hadn't backed up, is it possible to get those off? Windows doesn't see the partition, and I've googled myself to death here. Hi Nick, Did you put your /home directory on a separate partition to /, if you did, then your documents are safe, just do the reinstall but only format the / partition. When you set up the first user during install it will recognise that /home directory assigned to a user of the same name and simply prompt to update permissions and all will be good. Cheers Yo |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1300453 | 2012-09-24 00:18:00 | Hi Nick, Did you put your /home directory on a separate partition to /, if you did, then your documents are safe, just do the reinstall but only format the / partition. When you set up the first user during install it will recognise that /home directory assigned to a user of the same name and simply prompt to update permissions and all will be good. Cheers Yo Unfortunately not. I just made a /swap and a /. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300454 | 2012-09-24 00:25:00 | Wont it boot off a linux cd & run in trial mode. Then you should be able to access the hard drive. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1300455 | 2012-09-24 00:38:00 | Wont it boot off a linux cd & run in trial mode. Then you should be able to access the hard drive. This. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1300456 | 2012-09-24 00:46:00 | Wont it boot off a linux cd & run in trial mode. Then you should be able to access the hard drive. That's what I thought, but I must be missing something. I booted off a linux cd, but could only find my windows stuff, not my linux stuff. Will try again. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300457 | 2012-09-24 01:13:00 | Unfortunately not. I just made a /swap and a /. Oops, darn it, I've noticed the Ubuntu derivatives doing this a lot these days. From a security point of view I like to have a /home partition. It means that your root partition can get completely screwed but the valuable stuff is still intact. It also means that if you get tired of one distro you can install another over the top of your root directory without killing all your important stuff and all linux distros recognise /home and will look for the user directory in there. We sometimes suffer from one particular Windows hangover: That the Operating system is important/valuable. It isn't. The Linux standard recognises that the most valuable stuff is the users content and keeps it separate in it's own partition, the OS is a simply a tool to allow you to interact with your content. Any way to the issue at hand, you have an openSUSE DVD on hand? Run it as KDE live, put in a USB drive, open Dolphin file manager, normally Dolphin will display "Home" in the left hand pane and you should be able to copy your docs to the USB. Cheers Yo |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1300458 | 2012-09-24 01:26:00 | Oops, darn it, I've noticed the Ubuntu derivatives doing this a lot these days. From a security point of view I like to have a /home partition. It means that your root partition can get completely screwed but the valuable stuff is still intact. It also means that if you get tired of one distro you can install another over the top of your root directory without killing all your important stuff and all linux distros recognise /home and will look for the user directory in there. We sometimes suffer from one particular Windows hangover: That the Operating system is important/valuable. It isn't. The Linux standard recognises that the most valuable stuff is the users content and keeps it separate in it's own partition, the OS is a simply a tool to allow you to interact with your content. Any way to the issue at hand, you have an openSUSE DVD on hand? Run it as KDE live, put in a USB drive, open Dolphin file manager, normally Dolphin will display "Home" in the left hand pane and you should be able to copy your docs to the USB. Cheers Yo Was actually burning one just as this post appeared :) Will do, thanks. Once I get those off I'll be making a /home directory lol. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300459 | 2012-09-24 01:52:00 | Progress - I guess. I went through those steps, rebooted, and got the same thing as before. I've now decided just to reinstall linux mint from scratch, but first have another question. I have a couple of docs on my mint partition I hadn't backed up, is it possible to get those off? Windows doesn't see the partition, and I've googled myself to death here. Just install Disk Internals Linux Reader (www.diskinternals.com) in your Windows and you can read (not write) your Linux partitions and copy the data to Windows. Apart from EXT2/3/4 and ReiserFS filesystems of Linux, it will also read UFS (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc) and HFS (Mac) |
tmrafi (5179) | ||
| 1300460 | 2012-09-24 02:17:00 | Just install Disk Internals Linux Reader (www.diskinternals.com) in your Windows and you can read (not write) your Linux partitions and copy the data to Windows. Apart from EXT2/3/4 and ReiserFS filesystems of Linux, it will also read UFS (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc) and HFS (Mac) Cool! Thanks :) |
Nick G (16709) | ||
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