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My wife's XP has crashed and I neeed to save files. I've discovered the command to mount the hard drive - unfortunately I need to force the mount, but I ...
  1. 03-23-2009 #1
    kevb8ll
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    Kubuntu Live Disc Mount Hard Drive

    My wife's XP has crashed and I neeed to save files.

    I've discovered the command to mount the hard drive - unfortunately I need to force the mount, but I can't do it because I have to be in root. I can see the root user in the user list, but when I try to switch I can't access it.

    Can someone please explain how I can do it to back up my wife's files.

    Thanks. I have Kubuntu 8 and KDE 4.1.
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    You put sudo in front of the command you want to execute as root. See here

    examples
    Code:
    sudo mkdir /media/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
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    kevb8ll
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    Thanks. I'll try it when I can get the live disk to work. Got a new problem but I'll start a new thread.
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