[OT] LiveCD proved to be a valuable tool

[Bill Davidsen]

Smith, Herb wrote:
> All,
> 
> My wife has a Dell set up as a dual boot with Fedora 6 and Windows XP.
> Over the weekend a shutdown attempt went awry and something got
> corrupted on her machine.  Neither Fedora or Windows would boot.  Fedora
> would get past GRUB, but hang at the second step in the detailed boot
> process.  Windows would also hang somewhere.
> 
> I gave her the FC10 LiveCD to boot from.  She was able to do so and used
> the Logical Volume Management tool to mount both the Linux partition and
> the NTFS partition.  She was then able to remove all her files off to a
> USB disk.  She has now installed FC10 and is rebuilding her development
> environment (she did not reinstall Windoze..).
> 
> The LiveCD proved to be a very useful tool to enable her to recover her
> files.  There may have been another way to recover from this, but since
> Windoze was also hosed (even worse than it typically is... ) it felt
> like there might not have been much that could have been done.  
> 
It was true in the past that the first CD of the CD install set would function 
as a rescue disk, so one more tool to try if needed.

There was one significant difference between Live and rescue, but I can't 
remember it. Perhaps someone will be clever and remind me...

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