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

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, March 01, 2010 05:18 PM, rnr at sanctum.com wrote:
>> 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.

Vista would not still be using fat32 would it now? It has got to be ntfs.


>
> 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

Run 'fdisk -l' to see what partitions you have got.
You can also type 'mount' and compare the list from fdisk and eliminate 
partitions from the list. What remains over will be one that holds Vista.

I hope you have the ntfs-3g command. Although I suppose it would be okay 
to use the ntfs filesystem driver in read-only mode.

Next would be something like this: mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/sda5 /mnt

Try something leftover from the list fdisk gave you. If it is not an 
NTFS filesystem, it will simply refuse to load. You won't lose data.

>
> 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
>