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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 Getting Ubuntu Linux to detect windows partitions.(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: zippo Hey, guys. I just made the leap in to Linux. I'm having trouble accessing the other hard drive on my system. This undetectable drive housed a previous Windows OS and ceased functioning when the FAT file:mad: became unreadable. Is there any way that I can recover the data on that drive, or will I have to format it in order to use it at all? Feedback is deeply appreciated. And, yes, I will make backups from now on. Posted by: Enterpriser Oh that is a doozy I will try to get back to you. Posted by: jakec Try D/L Knoppix to get the Data off that HDD, and save it to a USB key or External HDD it is very good at that: [url]http://www.knoppix.org/[/url] hope this Helps, Jake Posted by: zippo Thanks, I'll try that. Posted by: zippo Hey guys. Have any of you ever used TestDisk? It sounds like a winner, so I'm going to use it. Trouble is, I've tried multiple releases of it and I can't get ./configure going after I've extracted the tarball. Can anyone share a similar experience with me? Posted by: zippo Oh,, btw, I installed gparted and it found the partition, but it doesn't look like it's going to help me pull files off it. Am I wrong about that? Posted by: zippo Ah...*grin* I have finally discovered mnt -t dev/hdc1 mnt/vfat. It was so simple....... Posted by: zippo That's sad, really. Windows couldn't mount a drive that it formatted itself and Linux managed it in two seconds. I'm never using windows again. Posted by: zippo K, that's it. I backed up my important files and formatted the drive to ext3. There was a little fuss over read/write permissions, but "chmod 777 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/ext3" ironed that out. *NOTE* For others viewing this post, you may not want to include the "777" part of that command. Read the help file for chmod and see if another configuration suits you better. 777 Gives all users read and write privileges. This is not a problem for me, as I am the only user other than root, which is also me. vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |