How to access HD contents with Ubuntu Bootable USB

I've got a 16 GB USB with 4 GB persistent memory running 10.04.3 Ubuntu on my T60 Thinkpad. (The Thinkpad is running WinXP if it makes any difference) The problem I'm running into is that I can't see or access the laptop's main HD through the file browser.

Using the disk utility, I can see that the 60GB drive is there, but I cannot access the files.

There is nothing wrong with the laptop's HD, I'm just trying to see if I can create a rescue USB to recover files.

Can anyone help me with some linux magic?

khchan

Posted 2012-01-09T16:10:32.303

Reputation: 131

Answers

Run

$ sudo mkdir /media/hhd
$ sudo mount -v /dev/sdxx /media/hhd

baligena

Posted 2012-01-09T16:10:32.303

Reputation: 101

Since you the partition is not getting mounted automatically you will have to mount it manually.

First find out the partition name it will be named like /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1 [if not check /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdb2]

create a folder /media/wind

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/wind -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

This should mount your drive in /media/wind

daya

Posted 2012-01-09T16:10:32.303

Reputation: 2 445

Try to use newer Linux. Ubuntu at version 10 may have too old drivers for NTFS. There may be some compatibility issues with such old version. – pbies – 2019-03-23T13:06:40.307

I checked with fdisk -l, and the partition is at sda1 but when I run the command, I get the following message: NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid Argument. The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. – khchan – 2012-01-09T16:36:50.910

root@x:/tmp# fdisk /dev/sda then type p+enter this will list all partition types – daya – 2012-01-09T16:58:35.287