A friend of a friend of the family posed the question.
"Can you recover some photos for me from an old PC, then wipe the disk and scrap the PC"
Sure says I, easy peasy, cost you a decent bottle of wine.
Said PC turns up with a cheap nasty bottle of Spanish red plonk. Grrrrrr
Examine PC, no CD writer, no USB ports, windows ME. Find photos in drive and escrow them into a subdir in the root. Ok no problem, take out drive, connect it to the unused ide subsystem on the home pc, fire up windows 7, cant see drive.
Ah Ping! Its formatted in Fat16, Windows 7 cant see fat16!
Take out drive, put it in my Ubuntu system. Use graphical disk manager, - What? can see drive but not partition, Grrr Win 7 has screwed the MBR Grrr.
Take out all drives except the drive in question, boot machine with xp disk, recovery console, fix MBR,
put Ubuntu boot drive back in, boot ubuntu, can now see drive, mount the drive, Mount a USB drive, copy photos to USB stick as back up, then burn a CD.
Grrrr all for a bottle of cheap nasty spanish plonk.
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