Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Sep 4, 2004 7:38 UTC (Sat) by SFX (guest, #24508)
In reply to: Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together by hchristeller
Parent article: Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

This is just a quick recovery tip for anybody who has accidentally hosed their system by using the xP Recovery Console prior to finding out about this fix: You can recover your NTFS data by using a Mac running OS 10.3.5. It reads NTFS out of the box. If you are using a ATA drive you can configure it as a slave in a G4 and it will mount the drive automatically on boot, or you can use a IEEE 1394 drive case (which is your all around best best). If you're using a SATA drive you either need a G5 or a IEEE 1394 case with an SATA interface. Trust me that this a quick, easy resolution to the problem because you can extract your data from the drive and back it up to the host, format the drive (you can even zero all data or do an 8 way overwrite) and then set up partitions and format them with MS-DOS FAT32 filesystem and put your data back on a secondary partition and do a clean reinstall. Then you can move your data back over afterwords, see this site for a description of supported filesystems in OSX:

http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_fs.html

If you have access to a Mac to do this, then do it. It won't take that long. Data recovery on a Mac is easy, everybody should keep one around somewhere just for that alone. Don't be prejudiced, like I said before, it's all *nix now ;-)

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