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

[John Heinen]

rnr at sanctum.com wrote:
>> 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
>>     
>
> Yes, You will learn it. Just take your time and be patient. It will all make 
> sense to you eventually. It is just a matter of learning how powerful the 
> Linux way is.
>
> Take a look at what Christopher wrote. It adds to what I wrote and gives you 
> other more advanced options and/or alternatives.
>
> Good luck. Make sure you reply with a "SOLVED" when you are successful and/or 
> if you need more help or clarification just ask.
>
> Bob S
>
>   
Sorry, forgot to mention it is vista 64 bit John