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Old 05-29-2004
HDD damaged, help me to recover data
I can't mount root partition. I can boot GRUB but when root partition mounting step the screen show me message: init not found.
I don't want to recover linux OS, I only want to recover /root/*.* files
In windows OS I use Easy Recovery but I don't know software which recover data in linux OS.
help me please.
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Old 06-01-2004
Boot from the CD into single user mode.

Look at the setup of the system. Maybe the root partition is corrupt and needs rebuilding.

Either way booting single user mode will help you work out what the problem is.
 
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