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Marco

Jun 9, 2007 01:38 PM

Ubuntu bootdisk for saving corrupt windows files.

Ok, so I fucked up my windows and I have some important shit in there. I booted ubuntu 7.04 livedisk and tried to put the files from my windows partition into my external harddrive. Should work, I've done it before. For some reason, though, my external harddrive is a read-only drive, and I cannot write anything into it. Is there any way of fixing that?

Thanks!

Little Shithead

Jun 9, 2007 01:56 PM

If the external drive is formatted with a filesystem that doesn't have native write support in Linux, say NTFS, it will be mounted as read-only.

If that's the case, if possible, the best solution would be to reformat the external drive as FAT32.

Marco

Jun 9, 2007 02:06 PM

Shit.

Thanks, anyway.

Little Shithead

Jun 9, 2007 02:16 PM

Well, there are ways to add write support for NTFS in Linux, but I don't quite know if it's possible to install them while in a boot CD environment.

Render

Jun 9, 2007 04:20 PM

Try out the Fedora 7 live CD. It should have NTFS write support off the bat.

Edit: never mind. :/

flakpyro

Jun 9, 2007 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Render (Post 449146)

Try out the Fedora 7 live CD. It should have NTFS write support off the bat.

Edit: never mind. :/

Fedora wont include ntfs support off the start for the same reason they dont include mp3 support. However neither of these things are very hard to get with yum ;)

yum install ntfs-3g

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