7/21/2008

Access my hard drive from LiveCD

How to access my hard drive from a LiveCD of Feather Linux?

If you just want to access your files and nothing else:

1) First you need to be the superuser. Go to a terminal and type "su - ". That will make you root.

2) Type "fdisk -l" (that's a lowercase L, not an uppercase i) to see your partitions. You may only have one, but if there are multiple partitions you will need to determine which one is your Windows partition (the one with an * is your boot partition).

3) Then you need to make a directory to mount your Windows partition in... type "mkdir windows".

4) Then you need to actually mount the drive. Type "mount /dev/sda1 windows", where sda1 is the name of the drive you found in step 1 that contains your Windows partition. Your Windows files should now be in windows.

You will have read-only permissions to the Windows partition. You can type "man mount" to show a full description of the mount command and its options.

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