HDD Validating Nightmare

[HellCoder]

Slash wrote:
I did manage to get the machine to stay up without guru'ing only by booting into the OS4 beta partition I have installed. Don't know what it does, but it stops it crashing.

A late reply, but still a huge problem!
Well, finally this has happened to me too. Unfortionately I don't have OS4 beta to allow me to copy all the files I really need. I've got about 4 Gb data but this is above the 4.3 Barrier.

Can anyone tell me how to boot my machine and tell the system NOT to validate so I can copy all my files ?
I don't mind formatting after, but just need the data. Can I mount the drive on Linux and than access the files ??
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[HellCoder]

Well,
I've managed to get all my data on another HD. What I did was this.

1: Remove the HD from my computer.
2: Put HD into PC machine.
3: Start Knoppix from CD (I used 3.3)
4: make a dir in /tmp
5: mount the partition using affs filesystem and copy all!

Whola,... now I can format the partition again and copy it all back. Atleast I've saved all my data.