hd problem

[Joel Hammer]

Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data.

I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when my
lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. The
lindows boot process just seemed to end very prematurely as shown in
messages but the thing still booted up, but without numerous subsystems
loaded, like the NIC, which was reported as undetectable with ifconfig.)

I used ftp from the command line in Knoppix to transfer the files.
It didn't pull off the hidden files, which, to my surprise, didn't
transfer with mput *. It is unclear to me why so many linux programs,
like mutt and pcal and all the rest, keep their configuration files in
hidden files, but, sigh....  So, beware of that nuisance.

BTW, is there a command with ftp which will make file transfer recursive
or do you have to use tar first as stated in man ftp.  Is there an ftp
substitute which will transfer recursively?

Joel

> If no, boot using Knoppix and pull all the data you need off.  Once
> you've verified you have all the data and it's in good shape, you can do
> pretty much whatever you need to to get things going again.