Just wondering if this is feasible...

Forum: Networking
Topic: Just wondering if this is feasible...
started by: Lazyhound

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Posted by Lazyhound on Dec. 01 2004,23:47

Would it be possible to boot DSL off the CD on PC A [broken Win95 install], connect it to PC B [WinXP Home] with a crossover cable, and copy the contents of A's hard drive to B?

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Posted by Lazyhound on Dec. 03 2004,01:01

Also, would it be possible to boot DSL from CD on both systems, and transfer PC B's HD contents to PC A?

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Posted by ico2 on Dec. 03 2004,13:13

yes, you would need samba.dsl though, download from the repository.


welcome to the forums

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Posted by Lazyhound on Dec. 03 2004,20:29

Thanks.

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Posted by AwPhuch on Dec. 03 2004,20:40

Thats how I rescued my wifes system....

Booted DSL, loaded samba.dsl, mounted my windows share, copied all "critical" files off busted c:\ partition, rebooted, reformatted and  POW!

Brian
AwPhuch

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Posted by Wekkel on Dec. 03 2004,21:06

An other way with modern pc's would be to boot knoppix or any other more elaborate Linux live cd and just burn the things you want to keep on a cd-r with k3b  

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