Don Thorp Meandering Out Loud

A while back, I had a DDR module go bad and trash portions of my Win2k registry. Not a huge deal, Installed XP and copied all of the data over. The bigger problem was that I was dual booting to RedHat 7.3 using Grub. When I installed XP, it proceeded to wipe out my bootloader thereby making it impossible to boot into Linux (for the record, I haven’t tried to restore the partition).

These tools were all found at FileSystems:HOWTO

LTools

On a whim today, I decided to see if there were any tools available for reading Ext2/Ext3 partitions from Windows. A little google magic and up pops LTools. I extracted it, ran it’s setup program, started the Java version of the UI, pointed it the drive which contains the Ext2 partitions and viola! I got my data. This product is great for browsing, but it won’t let you do recursive copies.

Explore2fs

Failing to be able to copy the files I needed using LTools, I found Explore2fs. While not as polished as LTools from a UI perspective, it does seem to be able to recursively copy files.

If you need to connect to Windows XP or Windows 2000 server from an older client,
Microsoft has published the Remote Desktop Client Software
for download. This is a must have if you do any remote management.