Re: Help recovering information from Windows

Thanks, That sounds like a good idea.

Does the hard drive need to have been partitioned for the cd to mount the
drive? Because there's a good chance that it wasn't.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 09/30/2008 06:45 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
Amanda Farr wrote:


I read some time ago on Digg that you could use an Ubuntu live cd and
mount
the drive but I really have no idea how to do that and would need very
specific instructions. Does anyone know where I could find instructions
for
doing this and recovering my information?

I appreciate the help and any advice anyone has.

Thanks,

Amanda



Not to be a complete goob, but I would use Knoppix instead of the Ubuntu
Live CD. Knoppix will automatically mount a detected hard drive,
assuming there is enough partition information with which to mount it
successfully. Although, almost ANY Live CD will work fine, I keep a
Knoppix mini-disc handy for when my bootable flash drive won't work
because of BIOS issues.

Just my $0.02.




+1 on that, particularly for older hardware. I've found many systems
that won't even load the Ubuntu liveCD, but have yet to find a system
that I couldn't load Knoppix onto.

For Amanda: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Also:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/


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