Windows

[Paul O'Malley]

Tommy Single wrote:

> I have been using Ubuntu on a computer in my house for a while.  But 
> recently, my family's Dell computer running Windows XP ran into some 
> problems.  The OS needs to be reinstalled which will delete all the 
> data on the drive.  So I thought I would try booting from the live 
> version of Ubuntu.  I booted from it and it works fine.  But the 
> question is, can I get all the files from the hard drive and put them 
> on cds using Ubuntu?  I need to get all the files from when Windows 
> was being used and put them on CDs using Ubuntu, but I can't seem to 
> find those files when using Ubuntu.  How can I access my hard drive?
>
> Tommy Single

Hi Tommy,
take the drive out of the bad machine and put it in the good machine :)
The (N)(T) (F)ile(S)ystem, the filesystem normally used under Windows XP. 
To automatically mount your NTFS partition/s, you can use this utility: 
http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/files/winmac_fstab . It handles HFS+, NTFS and 
FAT32 partitions.
Now read and copy on the local computer.
Regards,

P.