Help recovering information from Windows

[Amanda Farr]

Thanks, That sounds like a good idea.

Does the hard drive need to have been partitioned for the cd to mount the
drive? Because there's a good chance that it wasn't.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 09/30/2008 06:45 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> > Amanda Farr wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I read some time ago on Digg that you could use an Ubuntu live cd and
> mount
> >> the drive but I really have no idea how to do that and would need very
> >> specific instructions. Does anyone know where I could find instructions
> for
> >> doing this and recovering my information?
> >>
> >> I appreciate the help and any advice anyone has.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Amanda
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Not to be a complete goob, but I would use Knoppix instead of the Ubuntu
> > Live CD.  Knoppix will automatically mount a detected hard drive,
> > assuming there is enough partition information with which to mount it
> > successfully.  Although, almost ANY Live CD will work fine, I keep a
> > Knoppix mini-disc handy for when my bootable flash drive won't work
> > because of BIOS issues.
> >
> > Just my $0.02.
> >
> >
> >
>
> +1 on that, particularly for older hardware. I've found many systems
> that won't even load the Ubuntu liveCD, but have yet to find a system
> that I couldn't load Knoppix onto.
>
> For Amanda: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
>
> Also:
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>
>
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