The best software is free

[Rick Sivernell]

On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:35:51 -0600
"Michael Hipp" <michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> Why, oh why do I have to keep learning this lesson: try the free software first.
> 
> I've been working a goodly part of the weekend to recover the OS and data from a failing hdd on a client's W2k Server computer. Two different commercial partitioning tools could not seem to copy and resize the primary NTFS partition. After a bunch of Google searches, came upon the GParted LiveCD. And viola! It works. Yet another indispensible tool for my bag.
> 
>   http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
>   http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
> 
> Michael
> 
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 I have several customers that have had hdd & systems go unreadable. Knoppix 3.2
not only mounts and reads, but starts a cd/dvd payer and gets all data, Customer
very very happy, and I make oddddlllles of cash. Just Linux, do it.<grin>

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Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
ricksivernell at verizon.net
Registered Linux User