Help on crashed Hard Disk Recovery under LINUX

[jullrich at euclidian.com (Johannes Ullrich)]

> Hi,
>   I have a deil Laptop with windows-me and 
>   redhat linux installed in it.

Redhat (7.3 an higher at least) includes a bootable CD as CD #1 which
can be used as a rescure CD. It will automatically try to mount
partitions.

>   Also if I want to create a Linux bootable
>   floppy disk from another computer running
>   Linux, what is the command to be used to
>   make the disk bootable ?

You probably want more than a bootable floppy, as you will need a few
tools to copy your remaining data to a safe drive. I highly recommend
the "F.I.R.E" CD. While intented for forensics and incidents response,
it includes numerous tools to deal with disks. If desperate, you can
pipe 'dd' over netcat to a remote machine.

http://biatchux.dmzs.com/

another nice tool, but not as feature rich, is the linuxcare bootable CD
rom. It fits on a business card size CD (always good to have one in your
wallet)


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