How to rescue my data files before reconfiguring the 2 HD's of my desktop PC?!

Fri Apr 9 16:56:31 UTC 2010

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:

> One hard disk, sda, has a capacity of 80GB, the 2nd one, sdb, 160GB.
> The sda disk contains 2 partitions: sda1 with Windows XP and sda5, a
> data partition.

A Windows or Linux data partition?

If Windows - is Windows still functioning OK? Nothing you need to
retrieve from there?

> The sdb disk contains 3 partitions: sdb1 with Kubuntu
> 7.10,

Wow, that is an old version to keep around! 8.04 I could understand,
as it is an LTS release, but 7.anything?

> sdb6 with only data files/ backup

OK. Where was this mounted when in use? /home or what?

> and sdb7 with Kubuntu 9.10

OK. What format? ext3, ext4 or something else?

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