Re: [PLUG] Help with dual boot disaster

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

Windows can do whats called a parallel install onto
another partition. If you install over your Red Hat
partition a clean copy of win2k, you should be able to
mount/access your old windows partition as a normal
local drive. From there simply copy the files you need
to your new win2k partition and backup as needed. Hope
that helps :-)  - JP

--- Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com> 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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