[ltp] Data Extraction from HD

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Hi All

For some reason or the other I attempted to view a web site that had a ja=
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trashed my home directory.=20

No big deal this has happened in the past and was easy to fix with my Man=
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9.1 DVD disk. Unfortunately I could not find at the time my 9.1 DVD disks=
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only my 9.2 CD disk so I decided to upgrade knowing that that had not bee=
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positive experience in the past.

Later I was to find that that was a very bad decision as my DVD CD reader=
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some reason does not like that particular set of CD so it futher trashed =
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system. After screwing around with the system for several weeks attemptin=
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make it function in order to extract the data I finally gave up in disgus=
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and purchased another HD and installed the system on it without my data.

Currently I have the old HD in a box and the hardware necessary to mount =
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HD which was in my A30P Thinkpad in my desktop system.

The way the HD was set up was:
hda1    Windows XP        NFTS (sp=3D?)            15 GB
hda2    Data                   vfat (16/32=3D?)           20 GB
hda3    /boot                  ext3                         150 MB
hda4    /                        ext3                         10 GB
hda5    /home                ext3                          10 GB=20

GB sizes are approximate.

Anywar I can mount /boot, /, and /home which contain the operating system=
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I am unable to mount hda2, Data.

Is there any means that I may copy the data from hda2 to a usable medium?

Thanks
Frank