Hard Drive Crashed! Need to copy files to USB Stick??

[phpguy]

Hello all,

As the thread says, my hard drive (Debian Squeeze) crashed. I can get into the file system, but it's in read only mode...

How can I copy my files to a USB stick? It seems like I can't even mount the USB stick, since it's in read-only mode....

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Irithori]

boot from a livecd

[si_ed]

Your hard disks may be read-only but is your USB disk? That would be unusual -

[phpguy]

Thanks for the replies guys

Yes, only the HD was read only. So I mounted the USB stick with

mount -t auto /dev/sdb /cdrom

Note, I used /cdrom because that was the only spare directory I could fine. I was able to successfully copy the files to my USB drive!

I originally used -t ext2 and -t ntfs but neither worked. The documentation said auto will automatically determine the fs type

Anyway, hope this is of value to anyone who runs into a similar case in the future. Apologize for my verbosity; i'm new at this!

Cheers

[MikeTbob]

Thanks for posting your solution, it will be useful for others will the same problem.

[Hyp0tez]

Great solution posting