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Paul Sutton wrote: > HI > > Just wondered if anyone had a spare 2.5" to 3.5 converter for > connecting laptop hdd's to a normal pc ide connector, I want to see if > I can get a colleagues laptop hard drive connected to copy off any > data, (suspected dying or dead hdd), > > Thanks > > Paul > > > Can't say I have one myself although have you tried the System Rescue CD? You can download it here: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page It supports all the usual main file systems and also reading NTFS partitions out of the box. It worked wonders when trying to recover data off a faulty hard drive. What I did was boot the laptop up from the System Rescue CD, connect to the network, mount a remote samba share on /mnt/smb and the faulty drive as /mnt/ntfs and then copy everything I could over (iirc the command I used was cp -R /mnt/ntfs/* /mnt/smb or something along those lines). Oh, while I think about it too, they also have a PowerPC version on the site too although I haven't personally tried that as of yet. Hope this helps. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html