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

John Heinen hensandpat at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 1 17:10:48 UTC 2010


Christopher Chan wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     
>
>
>   
Thanks Bob, I have a lot to learn it will be awhile to report succes. John H




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