How to boot a win 7 hard drive that was in Ubuntu system?

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Thu Apr 6 01:13:14 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 19:51 -0500, Jim wrote:
> What do I need to do to get win 7 to boot without the drives
> containing Ubuntu present?

I can't help with booting Windows, but if all you need is the data off
the disk, you should be able to mount it manually. If it's eg /dev/sdc
and the data partition is /dev/sdc1 you could probably mount it thusly:

   sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

... and find everything under /mnt

Regards, K.

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