John Ferrell wrote:
> Will it acess the NTFS   hard drive?
>
> John Ferrell    W8CCW
> "Life is easier if you learn to plow
>        around the stumps"
> http://DixieNC.US
It will but i believe you have to do it manually.
something like
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#How_to_mount.2Funmount_Windows_partitions_.28NTFS.29_manually.2C_and_allow_all_users_to_read_only

or this if you want it readwrite something along these lines
http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=675


the short version is
put livecd in
let it do its thing
go to system | administration | synaptic package manager
go to settings | repositories
tick the boxes to the left of main universe and multiverse
ok your way out of the dialog it and it will download some stuff
click search
enter ntfs
click the box next to ntfs-3g0
pick "mark for instillation"
press apply
press ok
It will now go and get all the stuff you need to access NTFS drives

now to mount it (this is read write so you can modify and delete files
too, it might be an idea to take a disk image first "just in case" which
you can do with an attached USB disk or over the network if your keen.
an attached usb disk (hard drive that is) would go something like this
but do not do it unless you are sure which drive is which otherwise you
will erase/overwrite your hard drive
sudo umount /media/usb0  (to turn off the auto mount and get direct access)
sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=4096k
the "to" drive should be bigger than the "from" drive.
w00t free ghost ;->
for network ghosting you will need to mount a network share)

go to applications accessories terminal
type (keep in mind this is case sensitive)
cd Desktop
mkdir windowssux
sudo mount /dev/hda1 windowssux -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000

hda1 is dependant on the drive you are interested in being the first IDE
drive in the computer and the information being in the first partition
if this is not the case then you will need to change that
if its the 2nd partition then it will be hda2 (IE if there is a recovery
partition or some such)

if its using SATA then it will probably be sda1

then on your desktop you should be able to open the windowssux folder
and see the contents of the drive
to copy to another server on the network go to places | home folder
in the location bar enter smb://<ip address of server without angle
brackets>
or if you stick a disk into a usb port that will show up on the desktop
and you can copy that way (though for some reason it seems stupidly slow
unless you turn some of the fancyness off)

any problems let me know and we can hook up via some form of IM


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