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On 12/10/05, drew@××××××××××××××.net <drew@××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> I have a system on an Abit motherboard with the Nvidia GeForce 4 chipset. |
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> There are two SATA disks in a hardward stripe configuration using the |
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> controller built in to the motherboard. The machine and disks were used as a |
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> Windows XP workstation. Now that Windows installation is hosed up and I'm |
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> using the opportunity to covert this machine to a Gentoo desktop. |
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> However there is some data on the drive that I'd like to recover before |
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> blowing the disk away. I booted the latest Knoppix dated 9/23/05 and see two |
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> icons on the desktop for my drives. One for sda the other for sdb. I can |
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> not mount either. I assume this is because Knoppix is seeing each drive |
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> individually instead of the one logical striped drive it is. |
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> Is there some magic I can perform at the boot prompt to get Knoppix to see the |
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> two individual drives as one logical striped drive? I can't recover the data |
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> from booting Windows because it's all screwed up and reboots itself shortly |
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> after logon. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Drew |
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what about safe mode? or an overlay install? or even the recovery |
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console? i know that doesnt answer your knoppix question but i deal |
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with that crap everyday and i have tried using knoppix a few times and |
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it had problems with the ntfs partitions. where would you put the |
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data once you got it? its booted off the cd, so even if it was a |
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burner how would you burn something when the drive is being used? a |
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flash drive possibly. but probably the easiest way to get that data |
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(sorry to say) is get winders functioning again, get your data, and |
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then blow it away. which rises a question, if its a hardware raid |
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stripe, i dont think knoppix should be seeing both drives, i thought |
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the hardware controller told it what to see, so it should only see the |
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one raid device, at least that was my take on it. hope some of this |
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helps. |
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Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not |
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worth paying for. |
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