Please help me use Ubuntu to retrieve sata from crashed computer.
K. Mandla
k.mandla at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 17:51:49 UTC 2006
I'd hate to steer anyone away from Ubuntu, but for a situation like this,
Bart's PE disc is probably a better solution.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Cheers and good luck!
On 3/13/06, Gail Gatewayone <gmiller at gatewayone.com> wrote:
>
> Hi...
>
> My Dell Dimension 4550 (about 3 years old) w/ 512 MB RAM gave me a BSOD
> for
> an IRQ_NOT_EQUAL etc. error over the weekend.
>
> I downloaded Ubutu because someone told me I could use the Linux Live CD
> to
> retrieve files from the internal HDD and save them on my external USB HDD.
>
> UBUTU recognizes the USB drive w/ no problem but does not see the internal
> HDD. I wrote this query to the newsgroup and got a reply to search for the
> drive through Disk Manager, Make a new folder for it in \mnt\ and enable
> the
> drive. Well I did that and nothing happened. So I changed the path for the
> internal drive to the one the USB drive uses and now the internal drive
> shows up there but says I don't have permissions to access it.
>
> It's one of those so-close-and-yet-so-far-away situations it seems. Please
> tell me how I can do this simple task and get on w/ reformatting my drive
> and reinstalling Win XP (and probably Ubutu's Linux also!) Can you help me
> PULEEASE!
>
> Thanks so much in advance!
> Gail Miller
>
>
>
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