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I have a 250 gig external hard drive and I need to make a small partition on it and run Ubuntu live from it to recover files from a corrupt hard drive that Windows can no longer read. I want to make sure that I can use the rest of the external hard drive to store the recovered files on while im in Ubuntu. using Windows7 how do I go about doing that?
as a side note, the reason my hard drive is corrupt is because something happened(sudden power outage, apparently) to it and now Windows can no longer read it as a dynamic disk and therefore I need to convert it back to a basic disk before I can use it again. but I cant do that without losing 160+ gigs of files first.
I would've done that before except I don't have a usable optical drive at the moment so I'm stuck with my external and the latest Ubuntu ISO file – defurious – 2012-05-20T16:30:44.317
Then if you have access to another computer you can prepare a liveUSB to boot on the laptop, or you can extract the internal disk and plug it in another computer with an external case. – toasted_flakes – 2012-05-20T16:35:46.657