R-linux (rli_en_3) issues on Win98se
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:31 pm
I have a version of R-linux I downloaded 22nd November 2008 from the site. Problematic duadrive with missing linux partition information, installed as a slave. Under win98 se, it does not present an option to scan the entire drive as per manufactures specs, or even what the bios reports the size to be, as the program will not see the drive any bigger than what Win98se "knows" it to be. There is a option to scan the entire drive, but doing so, is no larger than what win98 reports. This is a problem.
Background:
I have a "pet" dual boot drive (40G) which had some linux partitions with some important data on it, so have been very hesitant to actually commit any changes to the drive. The drive was deliberately "hacked" by someone who I used to consider a valued friend. (Long before I was able to retrieve the machine after they had moved house, I had become aware though others, they and their hubby had some seriously sad "head issues", much of which could be simplistically summed up. )
So far:
I don't get much time to sit down and work exclusively on the drive. I get a chance every once and a while and it's surprising how fast the years have moved past. Scanning for logical drives takes a while. Scanning with various tools from UBCD, live linux distros, I can see the deleted linux partitions and contents, but not in entirety. Between the few tools, most of the information is there I believe, though I'm mostly interested in the dd images now.
Apart from bootable solutions, I've downloaded a few win98se compatible programs over the last few years that might be able to do a thorough job, but got no further than installing them. Many I hadn't bothered installing as they are merely demo only, and no real way to know if the "retrieved" file really has 401K of useful information, or simply 401K of null data. (Yes, a bitter lesson was learned years ago, when I got and used some win98 software and actually "thought" I'd backed up a nearly dead drive to cd, only to find later, many files contained nothing more than null data.)
Background:
I have a "pet" dual boot drive (40G) which had some linux partitions with some important data on it, so have been very hesitant to actually commit any changes to the drive. The drive was deliberately "hacked" by someone who I used to consider a valued friend. (Long before I was able to retrieve the machine after they had moved house, I had become aware though others, they and their hubby had some seriously sad "head issues", much of which could be simplistically summed up. )
So far:
I don't get much time to sit down and work exclusively on the drive. I get a chance every once and a while and it's surprising how fast the years have moved past. Scanning for logical drives takes a while. Scanning with various tools from UBCD, live linux distros, I can see the deleted linux partitions and contents, but not in entirety. Between the few tools, most of the information is there I believe, though I'm mostly interested in the dd images now.
Apart from bootable solutions, I've downloaded a few win98se compatible programs over the last few years that might be able to do a thorough job, but got no further than installing them. Many I hadn't bothered installing as they are merely demo only, and no real way to know if the "retrieved" file really has 401K of useful information, or simply 401K of null data. (Yes, a bitter lesson was learned years ago, when I got and used some win98 software and actually "thought" I'd backed up a nearly dead drive to cd, only to find later, many files contained nothing more than null data.)