Laurent
12-07-2005, 12:30 PM
Hi,
I've been looking around the forums for a few hours looking for a solution to my problem. I think i've found some sort of solution, but would like to get some clarifications before I try anything and to also make sure i'm fully understanding what i need to do.
here's what i posted in a thread in General Forum which seems to relate to my problem ( i dont know for sure tho):
Quick rundown of my situation.
I have a PC at home which is one of those OEM ones, ie when we bought it we were never given an install or repair CD. The PC runs Windows XP Home edition (the OEM version from what i learnt recently), 516mb of ram and an athlon XP 1700 processor (not a 100% sure about that).
Fast forward 3 years, and the PC started bugging badly. To the point where it totally crapped out and i cant get back into XP to retrieve data before reseting it.
So a friend linked me to KNOPPIX. Grabbed the most recent version this weekend, tested it and yes i can boot frmo the CD and see all the files stlil on the computer.
However I cant burn data from KNOPPIX as i've only got one CD drive and not enough ram to do the boot option where KNOPPIX transfers to the ram (the knoppix ram command i think?).
Yesterday my partner managed to borrow a portable USB Hardrive from her work. now the thing is the USB hd works fine with a Mac (my other computer) but i have no way of knowing if it works on a PC or Linux (got a feeling it's not gonna work on a PC).
I've seen a help page that gives a quick rundown of how to transfer data from the computer booted in KNOPPIX to a USB HD.
however last night when i tried to do it (with very little understanding of where to look as i'm totally new to Linux) i couldnt seem to find the USB HD anywhere at all.
My question is thus: if the USB HD works fine with a mac does it need to be formatted in some way before i can use it with KNOPPIX? And if so will the formatting render it unable to work with a Mac? (my other computer is a mac, which i could use to store data while i redo the PC, but the USB HD isnt ours and i dont think they'd want it formatted to something else as they only use macs).
Any advice/instruction on how to format it so i can grab the files and whether or not this would affect using the USB HD to transfer files back onto a Mac would be hugely appreciated.
Also as a side query. Before the PC crapped out, we had a sort of network between the mac and pc where we could transfer data from one to the other using shared folders. For some reason when i boot in KNOPPIX it doesnt seem to pick up any of the internet or network settings that XP had. I cant go online, cant see the Windows Shared folder which we used to transfer files between comps.
but from looking around there seems to be a way to do that tho from my understanding. Ie. make it possible for KNOPPIX to see my mac, and let my mac mount a shared folder or something like that so i can grab data from the PC and salvage it on the mac.
However again if someone could give me some advice/instruction on how to do that i would be very grateful.
One thing worth knowing is that i've no experience using Linux or KNOPPIX (save my usage of it last night for a few hours trying to figure out how to find the USB hd) so if you could keep that in mind when giving me advice/instructions thank you.
laurent
I've been looking around the forums for a few hours looking for a solution to my problem. I think i've found some sort of solution, but would like to get some clarifications before I try anything and to also make sure i'm fully understanding what i need to do.
here's what i posted in a thread in General Forum which seems to relate to my problem ( i dont know for sure tho):
Quick rundown of my situation.
I have a PC at home which is one of those OEM ones, ie when we bought it we were never given an install or repair CD. The PC runs Windows XP Home edition (the OEM version from what i learnt recently), 516mb of ram and an athlon XP 1700 processor (not a 100% sure about that).
Fast forward 3 years, and the PC started bugging badly. To the point where it totally crapped out and i cant get back into XP to retrieve data before reseting it.
So a friend linked me to KNOPPIX. Grabbed the most recent version this weekend, tested it and yes i can boot frmo the CD and see all the files stlil on the computer.
However I cant burn data from KNOPPIX as i've only got one CD drive and not enough ram to do the boot option where KNOPPIX transfers to the ram (the knoppix ram command i think?).
Yesterday my partner managed to borrow a portable USB Hardrive from her work. now the thing is the USB hd works fine with a Mac (my other computer) but i have no way of knowing if it works on a PC or Linux (got a feeling it's not gonna work on a PC).
I've seen a help page that gives a quick rundown of how to transfer data from the computer booted in KNOPPIX to a USB HD.
however last night when i tried to do it (with very little understanding of where to look as i'm totally new to Linux) i couldnt seem to find the USB HD anywhere at all.
My question is thus: if the USB HD works fine with a mac does it need to be formatted in some way before i can use it with KNOPPIX? And if so will the formatting render it unable to work with a Mac? (my other computer is a mac, which i could use to store data while i redo the PC, but the USB HD isnt ours and i dont think they'd want it formatted to something else as they only use macs).
Any advice/instruction on how to format it so i can grab the files and whether or not this would affect using the USB HD to transfer files back onto a Mac would be hugely appreciated.
Also as a side query. Before the PC crapped out, we had a sort of network between the mac and pc where we could transfer data from one to the other using shared folders. For some reason when i boot in KNOPPIX it doesnt seem to pick up any of the internet or network settings that XP had. I cant go online, cant see the Windows Shared folder which we used to transfer files between comps.
but from looking around there seems to be a way to do that tho from my understanding. Ie. make it possible for KNOPPIX to see my mac, and let my mac mount a shared folder or something like that so i can grab data from the PC and salvage it on the mac.
However again if someone could give me some advice/instruction on how to do that i would be very grateful.
One thing worth knowing is that i've no experience using Linux or KNOPPIX (save my usage of it last night for a few hours trying to figure out how to find the USB hd) so if you could keep that in mind when giving me advice/instructions thank you.
laurent