tracer9
June 18th, 2008, 01:09 PM
ive posted before on how easy we found recovering files from an NTFS partition where windows wouldn't boot by using the live cd (particular to this thread Fedora 8) to boot, grab the files and move them across the network but we had another "well duh" moment yesterday i wanted to pass along as probably most of us have been in this situration.
i was helping one of our junior techs rebuild a clone... reloading windows. we got to the end and needed to install hardware specific drivers and didn't have them... no prob, go to internet and download them.... bummer, network card was one of the problems.... so no internet.
obviously there are lots of ways around this, but we simply popped in the Fedora 8 Live CD which loaded NIC drivers fine... we went straight out to the internet, downloaded the necessary drivers and moved them to the Administrator Desktop of the Windows NTFS volume.... rebooted to windows and installed all of our drivers.... bam!
i was helping one of our junior techs rebuild a clone... reloading windows. we got to the end and needed to install hardware specific drivers and didn't have them... no prob, go to internet and download them.... bummer, network card was one of the problems.... so no internet.
obviously there are lots of ways around this, but we simply popped in the Fedora 8 Live CD which loaded NIC drivers fine... we went straight out to the internet, downloaded the necessary drivers and moved them to the Administrator Desktop of the Windows NTFS volume.... rebooted to windows and installed all of our drivers.... bam!