BenPaylor

Hey guys,
So Vista reared its ugly head and will not boot anymore. I borrowed a Kubuntu disc from my friend to boot off and here I am!

I have tried following a number of guides to access my old Windows files (I have an external that I can copy them to and then use recovery mode to get my Vista up and running again....) but none of them are working! I am not sure why!

I havn't installed the Kubuntu, and just running off booting from the disc so I think this might be the problem? I can use the Konsole to put in all the commands they say, but none of them work like the guides say they will! Am I missing something installed? or? Any advice is much appreciated!

Can someone direct me to a guide or help me through this process? Linux is completely foreign to me and even installing Skype is giving me problems!

Thanks,
Ben

BenPaylor

jclark.org - HOWTO Recover Files from a Non-Bootable Windows PC using Ubuntu Live
This seems like a good one, but right off the bat it doesn't work.
"Run the Ubuntu Disks Manager. From the system menu bar, choose System | Administration | Disks. In the Disks Manager, find the Hard Disk icon that represents your Windows drive. It is usually /dev/hda. You may see other Hard Disks that you don’t recognize, these are virtual devices created by the LiveCD."

I don't have a system menu bar and can't find this? Am I running a different system than this guy? How do I check what system I am running?

thanks!

BenPaylor

I am on Ubuntu 7.04

Why do I not have the options that this guy is talking about?

BenPaylor

How To Access Your Windows Hard Drive From Ubuntu
Or this guide seems like it would be perfect
but as soon as I get to this step....
ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /mnt/windrive -o "umask=022"
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
that happens!

whats going on?

BenPaylor

/dev/sda being the name of my drive according to qtparted

barks

hi,
this all sounds complicated?
is the drive not listed in places>computer?

devils casper

You have to mount all partitions manually. Boot up Kubuntu CD, open Konsole and execute this
Post output here.

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BenPaylor

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1020 8193118+ 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1021 10239 74051617+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 10240 19457 74043585 7 HPFS/NTFS

Let me know what to do next!

Cheers,
Ben

devils casper

First partition /dev/sda1 is marked as unknown. Is it Recovery Partition of Vista?
Create two mount_points ( folders ).
Open /etc/fstab file with root privileges.
Add these two lines at the end of file.
Save file and reboot machine. Vista partitions will be available in /media/sda2 and sda3 folders.

Ubuntu supports NTFS read access out of box. If you want to enable write access too, Install ntfs-3g package. Replace ntfs with ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab file after installing nfts-3g package.

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