Re: [PLUG] Help with dual boot disaster

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

Well, from a WinNT perspective, there are things to try like running install
again and selecting "repair" and the Emergency Repair Disk. Or try coping
the files from a boot disk over to the hard drive. (With Win9x it would
only require a "a:\sys c:" command.)

Sam Hunting wrote:

Hi--

After about a month, my dual boot Windows 2000 Professional/Red Hat 7.2
Sony Viao laptop, when in Windows mode, gave me a blue screen of death,
and when I rebooted, an "operating system not found" message. Booting
the machine from DOS on a floppy shows that no drives... The disk was
partitioned with Partition Magic. The last software I installed (in
Windows) was a Bernouili CD burner (ironically, for the backups I
didn't perform).

Obviously, I want to reconfigure the machine as Linux only, but is
there any way I can get my Windows data back? (There's about 5 days of
Python coding on it I want to get back...

Thanks a lot for any help you can give.

Sam Hunting

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