BIG TROUBLE! COMPUTER not working! DEADLINE tomorow!

Chippy_Minton

lazymoezy wrote: »

Now I see a desktop, with a screen open in front of me saying 'KNOPPIX INFO'.

Kind of need my computer back now so if anyone can advise me any further would appreciate it.

Follow this Computer First Aid Using Knoppix guide. It's written for an earlier version, however the steps should be very similar.

lazymoezy

By the looks of it I can see the files I need. I can easily drag into a usb/memory stick IF I had one. I done have a internet connection either!!!

My internet is wireless and the main router is on my brothers PC, he is not at home but his router is on, I will need a CD to install the Netgear programes or wont I?

I just need the internet connection and then im sorted.

lazymoezy

I dont have a memory stick, can get one tomorrow, but nothing now. Floppy drive is messed up for some reason, has been saying error since the beginning of the year! Dont have an extra CD drive, only option seems to have a internet connection so I can put all the files either on email or upload it somewhere.

Donnie

In addition;

Q: Ok, I've booted Knoppix, now how do I rescue the data?

A1: See Computer First Aid Using Knoppix, System Recovery and OSCON 2005-08-04 System Rescue with Knoppix.

A2: One of the best ways to recover your files is to plug in a USB drive of some sort.
When the desktop loads, you will see at least two hard drive icons on the desktop (one for your hard drive and one for the USB drive).
Click on the hard drive icons to open them up and figure out which drive is which.
Right-click the USB drive icon and choose "Actions > Change read/write mode" so you can write to the drive (it's read-only by default for security reasons).
Now find the files you want to back up and drag and drop them to the USB drive. When you are finished, shut down the system and remove the USB drive.

A3: If you have a CD burner installed (in addition to the drive that you booted Knoppix from), use one of the various tools on Knoppix to create a CD. If you have 1 gig of memory you can use the toram "cheat code" so that you will not need to keep the CD in the drive if you only have one CD drive. See the wiki section on Cheat Codes for more details on how to use toram and other cheat codes.

A4: If you want to backup over the network, you can use NFS, Samba (windows share), scp (ssh copy), FTP, email or more. One method, using two networked machines on knoppix is as follows: boot knoppix on both machines (the "broken" machine and the target machine), start ssh server on the target machine, "kmenu->KNOPPIX->Servers->SSH Server", mount a device with sufficient space in read/write mode (note: NTFS does not currently support read/write). Then you can use scp to move the data from the broken machine to the target machine (in this example, the target machine has an IP address of 192.168.1.1). On the "broken" box (get a root shell) issue a command scp -r /mnt/hda1/importantdata/ knoppix@192.168.1.1:/mnt/hda1/backup/ this will copy an entire directory (recursively) to the target machine.

A5: If you don't have a USB device that you can use or another local system to transfer files to, you can send the files to an Internet site (although your Internet connection will be slower than a local transfer). You may be able to e-mail them to yourself. You may be able to save them on FTP or web space that your ISP provides. Or you can use any of a number of Internet sites that offer Free temporary storage of large files. One such site it yousendit.com, although there are others. Also, Google allows over 2 gigs of storage for Gmail users (although the size of a single file is somewhat limited).

lazymoezy

none of those will work for me, no extra CDdrive, no memory stick, no internet connect and I dont know all that FTP/NFS stuff.

Will have to wait till tomorow so I can get hold of a memory stick and copy the files onto it. This program looks pretty good and is quite similar to windows.

lazymoezy

Ok.Got hold of a memory stick so now have something to put data on. I tried copying and pasting a file which contains many files onto the memory stick but when I do that and try thememory stick on the laptop there is nothing there, the file is there but when I open the documents nothing is there and documents are all at size 0KB.

Why is that? Will I need to copy and paste each file one by one on the memory card?

lazymoezy

I clicked on properties for both memory stick and the hard drive and un-ticked the 'read only' box.

I cant even copy and paste the files nor can I drag them into the memory stick

lazymoezy

Just realised that when you take the memory stick out of the USB hub and put it back in, you need to make sure you make the stick writable, this process needs to be done everytime memory stick is inserted again. Didnt know that until now.

Lets see how it all goes.

If I successfully save all the files onto the memory stick can I just use the Windows CD to install cleanly again or would anything else needed to be done?

Donnie

Yes, just boot up with the XP CD, follow my instruction in order that you install the correct languages(you have to look for those within the thread).

Don't just proceed with your own interpretation. Follow the instructions.

lazymoezy

Just realised that when you take the memory stick out of the USB hub and put it back in, you need to make sure you make the stick writable, this process needs to be done everytime memory stick is inserted again. Didnt know that until now.

Lets see how it all goes.

If I successfully save all the files onto the memory stick can I just use the Windows CD to install cleanly again or would anything else needed to be done?