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Topic: HD install failed and now hda5 and hda7 have gone!, Is my data lost now?

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Posted: July 03 2006,17:29

I wanted to save data from old OS to CD. So I tried first installing DSL to HD, by doing this;
I tried the option from right clicking on the desktop "HD install". That apparently did nothing. Then I turned off the computer and turned on again and selected "save cd to hd and install" or something lke that. I saved it to HDA7 Then it was the same, the CD could not be ejected. So I turned it off and turned it on with no CD. But then I couldn't get any DSL at all. So I tried again, but turning it on with CD in, and then choosing the option "install from previously saved CD image on the HD" or something like that. And it did a few things and then came to something like "such and such is freaking out" or "such and such is panicking" or something. And then would go no further.

Previously, the mount tool had acknowledged hda1, hda5 and hda7. Now however, it only acknowledges hda1. So, what has hapened to the other two? Are they destroyed? My purpose of using DSL at al was to just retrieve that data. Now it seems even more difficult. How can I find it?
(N.B. I am not a computer person so please explain in a very easy way!.)
Thank you very much!
Justin

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Posted: July 03 2006,19:15

I have no idea what you just said. Technical answers can properly be given only to technical questions. What you have given is a lot of something-likes and such-and-suchs, which says very little about what you tried or what the outcome was.

If you simply want to retrieve data from a harddrive, I can't say I'd recommend trying to install anything to that harddrive unless you are already pretty certain it will succeed. There is always a possibility of losing your data when you do an OS install, and if you're just guessing about how to do it the possibility becomes more of a probability.

Now that I'm done preaching....DSL is first and formost a live CD. Try booting the live CD again, forget about installing and see if your data is still there. You should be able to accomplish whatever you need to do without bothering with an install....that can be done later, after your data is safe.

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Posted: July 04 2006,02:42

I tried doing it from the live CD first, but I could not eject the CD! So, I could not find any way to burn the data onto a CD as the live cd didn't want to come out! So I came to the conclusion maybe I had to install the DSL onto the hard drive so it didn't need the live CD, so I could then burn the data. And, I'm sorry but I cannot be SURE what I am doing in ANY of these steps, as this is really not my thing (computers) and it is already taking me several weeks jus to get this far.

I am sorry that I have not been precise in my explanation but I have been as precise as I possibly can, to the ability of my memory for all the unfamiliar terms I have encountered. I have indeed again installed from the live CD but the little mount tool window now only has the following; cdrom, hda1, fd0. Before it listed also hda5 and hda7. So does that mean that now hda5 and hda7 no long longer exist? I do not know what it means. Is there a way I might be able to still get int hda5 and hda7?

Thank you
Justin

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Posted: July 04 2006,02:45

When I said "Then I turned off the computer and turned on again and selected "save cd to hd and install" or something lke that.", I meant that when the computer starts, when I turn it on, there is a screen and I can press F2 and F3 to get some menus. It is from there that it tells me what to type to choose something like "save cd to hd and install". That's what I meant there, if that makes things any clearer?
Thanks!
Justin

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Posted: July 04 2006,03:04

Now further problem:
I just rebooted and tried to boot the Windows 200 which is on this machine. That was on hda1, which DSL still recognised as being there. Usually when I turn the coomputer on (without the DSL cd in the drive) I get the suse menu of booting either suse or linux. Now I only get the DSL menu of linux or windows. However the linux doesn't boot (like I explained before - that is from when I tried (and apparently failed) to install DSL to the hard disk) and now I tried to boot windows. But now that doen't work! It says this:
"Boot record signature AASS not found (0000 found). Wondows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware."

The thing is, apart from mounting and then dismounting hda1 in DSL, I did nothing to it. Out of hda1, hda5 and hda7, I only tried to install to hda7. But now hda5 AND hda7 seem to have dissappeared (at least DSL seems to not be able to see them) and now windows (on hda1) doesn't boot.
Help much appreciated!
Justin

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