Just saw your machine has died sorry to hear that.
I am not sure if you like me sucking eggs but for a scatter file system like Xubuntu/Debian etc I would recommend you consider using a live cd and fsarchiver. I use sysresccd on a stick. In case you never used it before, its on the Gentoo based sysresccd
Here are my commands to first save the partition and then restore the partition.
Depending on the size, you can either cloud the images or burn the images or if you think USB is safe? copy the images.
sysresccd can be booted up to console (no graphics) and automatically you are root I think? but sudo su if I am wrong
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mkdir /z
mount /dev/sda4 /z
fsarchiver savefs /z/<filename>.fsa /dev/sda1
# restore
mkdir /z
mount /dev/sda4 /z
fsarchiver restorefs /z/<filename>.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda1
/z is easier to type than mkdir /mnt/something ....I like short typing command over larger as I am not a touch typist
replace <filename> with a real file....I keep a log and use letters (base26) . by looking up k....I can see its got x y deleted z etc
sda4 is where I save my images
sda1 is my Xubuntu.....change yours to suit.
I know you may have already bought it etc.....but I like ASUS mobos and my beast is Z97Mplus
It claims 7000 hours to validate it.
Naturally if you are buying a new mobo ask them to do the CPU burn in ....meaning stress test it
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2028882/ ... dware.html
spend the bucks to buy a decent mobo and half your problems go away.
good luck
