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Accessing a Linux File System on Hard Drive from DVD boot or externally through USB
A computer with multiple OS-es my family uses crashed, when you start up it looks like this, cannot load grub:
If I start the computer with a GParted bootable disk, the file systems are there, and GParted can acccess them:
I can start up this computer fine using an Ubuntu 15 DVD for booting, but I cannot see the hard drive, either file systems.
I would like to make a backup copy of important files from this drive, before experimenting with re-installing grub or a new OS. If I remove the hard drive and connect it through USB to another computer running Fedora Linux, I don't seem to be able to mount the hard drive either as an external drive, because I don't see it as a drive.
How would I mount this on any Ubuntu or Fedora computer so that I would have access to the files?
(Preferably by booting from DVD on this computer.) Thanks.
If I start the computer with a GParted bootable disk, the file systems are there, and GParted can acccess them:
I can start up this computer fine using an Ubuntu 15 DVD for booting, but I cannot see the hard drive, either file systems.
I would like to make a backup copy of important files from this drive, before experimenting with re-installing grub or a new OS. If I remove the hard drive and connect it through USB to another computer running Fedora Linux, I don't seem to be able to mount the hard drive either as an external drive, because I don't see it as a drive.
How would I mount this on any Ubuntu or Fedora computer so that I would have access to the files?
(Preferably by booting from DVD on this computer.) Thanks.
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Well, I tried to mount like Dr Klahn said:
It did not work.
Then, I thought I would look at all the drives by running, like Scott suggested:
It eventually at the end of the response after all the RAM drives it came back with:
So then, I looked at -> Places -> Files and in the Devices in the GUI file manager, and it just showed all these drives as mounted. So I inserted a 2TB drive in the USB, and it popped up as well. So now I started copying everything I would need from the home folder on the mounted hard drive to a folder I made on this external drive.
So far copying is running fine, 3 hours and 20 minutes remaining on USB 2.0.
I don't know why it did not do it before. Maybe semi-broken hard drive?
I just don't know why I cannot see the .wine folder. I have some stuff to save in Wine as well. Is that an option in the GUI file manager?
ubuntu-mate@ubuntu-mate:~$ cd /tmp
ubuntu-mate@ubuntu-mate:/tmp$ mkdir sda1
ubuntu-mate@ubuntu-mate:/tmp$ mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /tmp/sda1
mount: only root can use "--types" optionIt did not work.
Then, I thought I would look at all the drives by running, like Scott suggested:
ubuntu-mate@ubuntu-mate:/$ sudo fdisk -lIt eventually at the end of the response after all the RAM drives it came back with:
Disk /dev/sda: 698.7 GiB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x71501dd4
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 164098047 164096000 78.3G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 164100094 1465147391 1301047298 620.4G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 164100096 1458993151 1294893056 617.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1458995200 1465147391 6152192 3G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 970 MiB, 1017118720 bytes, 1986560 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x160450c0
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 128 1986559 1986432 970M 6 FAT16
ubuntu-mate@ubuntu-mate:/$ So then, I looked at -> Places -> Files and in the Devices in the GUI file manager, and it just showed all these drives as mounted. So I inserted a 2TB drive in the USB, and it popped up as well. So now I started copying everything I would need from the home folder on the mounted hard drive to a folder I made on this external drive.
So far copying is running fine, 3 hours and 20 minutes remaining on USB 2.0.
I don't know why it did not do it before. Maybe semi-broken hard drive?
I just don't know why I cannot see the .wine folder. I have some stuff to save in Wine as well. Is that an option in the GUI file manager?
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Thanks for your help. I could copy all now.
Boot from the live CD.
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If the mount is successful, the drive should be accessible under /tmp/sda1. You can then make a tar backup and compress it with whatever compression utility you normally use.