On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:34:51 +0200 sphinx <sphinx at indymedia.org> wrote: > Hello all! I'm having trouble with my IBM Laptop T22 and I when to > Micro Centre in St.Louis Park to have them make a back-up for my > important data in the machine. They said they can't becuase the > harddisk is linux formatted. I got linux suse 9.3 on the machine. Does > anyone here know any place around the Twin Cities area were I could go > and have my data backed-up despite my hard disk being linux formatted. Yay! Micro Center .. sigh. Perhaps someone else can chime in with a specific answer to your question of a for-pay local solution. Can you describe the "trouble"? Does it power on? AFA backups, I would suggest an alternative, if you have another machine at home/work, that being: Try 'g4u' - it's can be found, along with many* other tools on: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ >From http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ --> [quote] g4u ("ghost for unix") is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. [/quote] It comes to mind, because I just used it to dump some dusty old drives, while I had a new PC opened up. -- Or, you could buy an adapter and backup/diagnose it in a desktop machine. local suggestion: http://nanosys1.com/con-hd-mide-ide.html Anyway, just a couple thoughts .. -Jay