Silent Warrior
May 18th, 2010, 07:29 AM
*Takes a deep breath*
Right, I only gone and dunnit now... So, here I was, having just applied the last batch of updates for Karmic in preparation for a smoother transition to Lucid - planned using a fresh install, and for a number of reasons. On popping in the installer, it won't list my IDE harddrive in the list of partitions where to install. I have this IDE-drive and two SATA-drives - the latter two are crammed to bursting with Windows-stuff that I'd quite like to keep.
But since GParted recognized the IDE-drive, I thought, hey, no sweat, I'll just format the /-partition and try again. No go. So, there I am, with a mostly EXT4 /home, swap, and clean /-partitions ('upgraded' EXT3 to 4, no reformatting /home...), thought I'd give that a rest and pop into XP for a spell - and Grub throws an Error 17! :(
Well, damn, says I. After poking and prodding in BIOS, attempting to recover/reinstall Grub using other LiveCDs - which didn't work, though Mint 7 (Jaunty?) successfully discovered my IDE-drive through the installer - I thought I'd go and have a look at what XP's repair console had to offer. Brace yourselves...
After running a couple of [fixboot]s, I used fixmbr. On all drives. ](*,) My Linux-drives now insist they're FAT; root, home, and swap all. All isn't disaster-ville, though - I had just realized I was in the market for a fatter harddrive (SATA) - expecting it to arrive today, in fact - so some kind of backup or rescue-operation should have quite enough space, with the /home-partition being only 60 Gb or so.
Now: How do I go about recovering my /home-files? I see in Synaptic this little utility 'ddrescue'/gddrescue which seems to offer the proper functionality.
What about Bacula? ext3grep? friendly-recovery? magicrescue? mondo, even? Are either of them overkill?
I'll have to run this off a LiveCD, but I guess that's the best way regardless. apt-get update FTW.
But what's with the installer not spotting the IDE-drive while GParted does? It's even listed in Places! Even Windows read it with no difficulty (with that EXT-driver for Windows installed). I read some time ago that Fedora planned to drop some form of IDE-support, but can that really be what's bitten me now?
Hm, come to think of it, I just installed sidux Moros on my other, older hardware, IDE up the wazoo... No hitch. Also no SATA-support, possibly a drained battery - the motherboard isn't keeping time, and gave me lip about the last time I mounted a partition - January 2010 - was ten years in the future. Mkay.
Right, I only gone and dunnit now... So, here I was, having just applied the last batch of updates for Karmic in preparation for a smoother transition to Lucid - planned using a fresh install, and for a number of reasons. On popping in the installer, it won't list my IDE harddrive in the list of partitions where to install. I have this IDE-drive and two SATA-drives - the latter two are crammed to bursting with Windows-stuff that I'd quite like to keep.
But since GParted recognized the IDE-drive, I thought, hey, no sweat, I'll just format the /-partition and try again. No go. So, there I am, with a mostly EXT4 /home, swap, and clean /-partitions ('upgraded' EXT3 to 4, no reformatting /home...), thought I'd give that a rest and pop into XP for a spell - and Grub throws an Error 17! :(
Well, damn, says I. After poking and prodding in BIOS, attempting to recover/reinstall Grub using other LiveCDs - which didn't work, though Mint 7 (Jaunty?) successfully discovered my IDE-drive through the installer - I thought I'd go and have a look at what XP's repair console had to offer. Brace yourselves...
After running a couple of [fixboot]s, I used fixmbr. On all drives. ](*,) My Linux-drives now insist they're FAT; root, home, and swap all. All isn't disaster-ville, though - I had just realized I was in the market for a fatter harddrive (SATA) - expecting it to arrive today, in fact - so some kind of backup or rescue-operation should have quite enough space, with the /home-partition being only 60 Gb or so.
Now: How do I go about recovering my /home-files? I see in Synaptic this little utility 'ddrescue'/gddrescue which seems to offer the proper functionality.
What about Bacula? ext3grep? friendly-recovery? magicrescue? mondo, even? Are either of them overkill?
I'll have to run this off a LiveCD, but I guess that's the best way regardless. apt-get update FTW.
But what's with the installer not spotting the IDE-drive while GParted does? It's even listed in Places! Even Windows read it with no difficulty (with that EXT-driver for Windows installed). I read some time ago that Fedora planned to drop some form of IDE-support, but can that really be what's bitten me now?
Hm, come to think of it, I just installed sidux Moros on my other, older hardware, IDE up the wazoo... No hitch. Also no SATA-support, possibly a drained battery - the motherboard isn't keeping time, and gave me lip about the last time I mounted a partition - January 2010 - was ten years in the future. Mkay.