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 Bob and Christopher, i didn't give you all the facts but that is
on account of my limited knowledge.
The system is Vista 64 bit. We have windows vista and opensuse on the
same hard drive. Vista crashed( because the backup section reached it's
limit, or so it seems., therefore, I think, I can't get into windows to
locate and copy.
What I did : I used a Linux mint and qtparted to look at the hard drive.

On the hard drive we have as follows "according to qtparted"
partition size used space start end recovery
1 /dev/sda1 ntfs 15.54 gb N/A .o3 mb 15.54 recovery
2 /dev/sda2 nfts 115.55 gb 37 gb 15.54 gb

This indicates that the recovery part is full, my guess is that vista
will not work unless there is space for backup.
(The rest of the drive is filled up with opensuse, linux mint etc)
My guess is that if we could increase sda1 to resolve that problem, but
how? Vista sda2 sits right smack against it.
You might wonder why bother with this window problem, this is not
opensuse, well, when I upgrade suse and it is time to do so, I might
lose it all. Appreciate y'all patience John H