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[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Sandy, Daniel, Patrick, Carlos, Teruel, James, Bandi... :-)

thank you very much for your hints. Meanwhile I have downloaded several "live 
CD's and tried with them what I was able to, till now with no success. 
Nothing really important has been lost, so I will not invest too much work on 
that topic.

I don't now what happened. Somehow it looks as just the whole disk is rotten. 
The BIOS shows it, but fdisk, gparted etc. show a 7.something GB disk, what 
in fact was a 20 GB disk. It doesn't find /dev/hda1 nor /dev/hda2 and parted 
says, it can't work with a partition outside of the disk...

I was just hoping there was a tool which I can download, burn on a CD, boot 
with it and save the data on a floppy without the need of knowing/thinking so 
much :-) 

(In my early computer days, on NCR systems, we had a "dump"-command and it 
just printed out the raw contents of a disk in hexadecimal form, even from an 
unmounted disk, if I remember correctly. Well, it was a 40 MB (yes, "MB" 
not "GB"!) disk, so probably not quite the same as nowadays...)

Anyway: thanks a lot for the try.

Daniel
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