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05-24-2008
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| Connecting a seagate external hard drive My computer has stuffed up and I'm using a knoppix 5.1 boot cd to try and get some files off of it.
the external hard drive i am trying to connect is a seagate free agent drive 500gbs.
knoppix doesn't seem to even be recognizing that it is connected.
please help,
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05-24-2008
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| Hi and Welcome !
Plug-in External disk, open Konsole or Terminal and execute this Code: sudo fdisk -l
df -h
Post output here.
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05-25-2008
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| This is what the shell konsole displayed knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4863 39062016 7 HPFS/NTFS
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 3.4M 22K 3.4M 1% /
/ramdisk 396M 11M 386M 3% /ramdisk
/UNIONFS 396M 11M 386M 3% /UNIONFS
/dev/hdb 697M 697M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/cloop 2.0G 2.0G 0 100% /KNOPPIX |
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05-25-2008
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| I'm not sure why but now knoppix is picking my hard drive up.
and its actually 250gig sorry. not sure if that makes a difference.
but now the problem is i cant copy files onto it.
using those commands you told me this is what comes up
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knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4863 39062016 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 3.4M 23K 3.4M 1% /
/ramdisk 396M 19M 378M 5% /ramdisk
/UNIONFS 396M 19M 378M 5% /UNIONFS
/dev/hdb 697M 697M 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/cloop 2.0G 2.0G 0 100% /KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 38G 30G 7.5G 80% /media/hda1
/dev/sda1 233G 68G 166G 30% /media/sda1 |
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05-25-2008
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| Quote:
not sure if that makes a difference.
but now the problem is i cant copy files onto it.
| Knoppix doesn't support NTFS read/write out of box. You have to install ntfs-3g package for that.
If your machine has internet access then execute this Code: sudo apt-get install ntfs3g
sudo umount /dev/sda1
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0
In case it doesn't work, try PartedMagic LiveCD. Its a Partition Manger, 30MB Size and ntfs-3g pre-installed.
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05-25-2008
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| Code: knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo apt-get install ntfs3g
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package ntfs3g
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo umount /dev/sda1
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o
defaults,umask=0
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is unclean. Choose one of these actio
ns:
Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removabl
e
device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Wind
ows
taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
Or
Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux unless you have Vista, then mount NTFS w
ith
the 'force' option read-write, or with the 'ro' option read-onl
y.
Or
Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ ntfsfix
ERROR: You must specify a device.
ntfsfix v1.13.2-WIP (libntfs 10:0:0)
Usage: ntfsfix [options] device
Attempt to fix an NTFS partition.
-h, --help Display this help
-V, --version Display version information
For example: ntfsfix /dev/hda6
Developers' email address: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sf.net
Linux NTFS homepage: http://www.linux-ntfs.org
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ ntfsfix /dev/sda1
Mounting volume... FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda1 was processed successfully.
I still cant copy anything to it and the error im getting is Quote: |
Could not make folder /media/sda1/Assignments.
| I'm downloading parted magic now so i guess I'll see how that goes... |
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05-25-2008
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| Execute Code: sudo mkdir /media/sda1
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0,force
ls /media/sda1
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05-26-2008
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| Yay!
I eventually managed to fix it all up on sunday afternoon and i got all the files off it i wanted.
I also want to turn this machine I'm on now into a linux machine once i get my new computer. What distro (i think that's what you call them) would you recommend?
And how should i go about learning some of the linux konsole stuff?
Thank you for your help devils casper  |
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05-26-2008
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| Glad to help you !! Quote: |
I also want to turn this machine I'm on now into a linux machine once i get my new computer. What distro (i think that's what you call them) would you recommend?
| Post your machine's specs here. RAM, HardDisk size, Graphics Card and Processor.
Check the link in my Signature too. It will get you going. Quote: |
And how should i go about learning some of the linux konsole stuff?
| Check linuxcommand.org.
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05-27-2008
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| My computer is a dell inspiron 2200
and its specs are :
1.4ghz intel celeron M processer
256MB RAM
40Gig hard drive
and an internal 128MB intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML express chipset video card.
From what I've heard Ubuntu would be a good place to start? |
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