in reply to Accessing a RAW partition!

If this were me, I'd probably boot into linux from a CD and use dd (and maybe strings too, if I was really just looking for the text files.) I think there's a dd that comes with cygwin. And there may be other versions available too. I'm not sure how functional they are.

Good luck.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

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Re^2: Accessing a RAW partition!
by halley (Prior) on Oct 02, 2005 at 15:00 UTC
    With apologies to Janis Joplin,
    Oh lord, won't you burn me a Knoppix CD.

    Really-- a Live distro like Knoppix is built for this kind of hardware hackery. Boot it off the CD, and you never have to become an expert at dual booting, or even install anything to the hard drive itself.

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