On 01/03/17 03:54, Stevens wrote:
An update:
The dd command as suggested by Greg worked fine, I was able to take the original 2 good hdds (or working pulls w/ os on them) and back them up to a couple of files in the temp dir, then write back out to a couple of unpartitioned drives of equal or larger size. I tried to resize with gparted but it fails to resize and I don't have any other tool (yet) to do that. Orig hdd is 1 GB with about 110MB of data in FAT16 partition and the other is about that size with maybe a bit more data. One has Win 3.11 and the other is Win95 (I said it was old crap).
Issue is 3 spare drives from 172MB to 800MB size that I cannot use until I get the copied partition resized down to 172MB. The copied partitions are on drives that are too thick to fit into his laptops. It's always something ...
Has he got VirtualBox or similar? Can you copy the images to a laptop hard-drive? Can you mount the images in VirtualBox? Actually, it's just struck me - linux has no trouble loopback-mounting a disk image - can you mount those images in linux and just copy the files out of it? If all you want to do is recover the disk contents, with those drives you could almost certainly just mount them in linux, burn the contents to a CD, and let him recover the stuff off that! Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org