You could try to boot with Knoppix and transfer your /home partition on to another drive or a network store. Unless of course the drive is completely trashed. On Wednesday 25 June 2003 10:46 am, Brian wrote: > I have an IBM De[sk|ath]Star 60GXP. Last night it finally bit the big > one, it's making whining and clicking sounds on startup. > > Does the freezer trick work on standard IDE drives? Any other tricks I > can try? The data stored on this thing is either backed up or mostly > irrelevant, but if I could grab my /home/ partition I'd feel a bit > better about it. > > -Brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist dot com 952-368-3278 ext 396 fax 952-368-3255 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list