possibly better yet, download a knoppix cdrom, boot the dead server from that, and mount your disks and copy the data off. On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote: > Yes you should be able to without any major problems. > The only pitfall maybe that your working system maybe configured to mount > filesystems by LABEL (ie /etc/fstab LABEL=/ etc) which is never a good > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote: > > >I have a Linux server with 2 Hard disks (IDE). > >The machine went down and refuses to boot. > >I need to recover some data from one of the disks. > >Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need. > >Thanks in advance, > >Prasad danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile