Live linux cd for a gateway 64- bit/32bit computer

[rnr at sanctum.com]

> rnr at sanctum.com wrote:
> >> I need to pull some files from  a corrupted  visa on this 64/32
> >> computer,
> > 
> > Do you mean Vista? Windows?
> > 
> >> we have also opensuse on this hard drive but suse can't.
> > 
> > Why not? If  this is a dual boot machine. Fire up Suse, mount the windows
> > partition and copy your files over to SuSE.
> > 
> > Bob S
> 
> Can you elaborate on that, how to copy John H

OK John,

I am normally a SuSE KDE user and a sometimes Ubuntu user. First you have to 
go into Windows and determine where the files you want to save are located. 
The full path. ( /C:/My Documents  ??) I can have no idea. My crystal ball is 
broken. Then you must know what type of file system Vista uses. Again, no 
idea. 

After you know that boot back into SuSE. Open a terminal as root then issue 
this command.  mount  -t  (whatever the windows file system is)  (wherever the 
files are located in windows)  /mnt

As an example - DO NOT USE THIS - Just an example.
mount  -t  fat32  /C:/My Documents  /mnt

then cd to /mnt and you should see the whole directory there with all of your 
files using ls. Or, open and use your GUI  go to /mnt and drag and drop them 
where you want them or if continuing with the command line use   mv  (name of 
file)   (/directory you want to put them in) 

Hope this helps

Bob S