Re: Using Knoppix to recover Win XP Home file

Yes, I have done this before. boot from the Knoppix cd, I think 3.4
came out not to long ago, and open a terminal.

1) find the drive and partition that Windows was installed on

cat /proc/partitions
there should be something like
/dev/hda1

2) mount that partition

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

you may have to specify -t ntfs or -t vfat but it should automaticaly
figure it out on it's own.

3) mount the floppy

mount /media/floppy
or maybe
mkdir /floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy

4) find the report somewhere under /mnt and copy it to /floppy
utilize cd, cp, mv, find, and ls as needed. If you need more
information on these utils let plug know but they are basic Unix
commands and not to complicated if you know even a little dos.


Hope this helps

-Bill W

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 07:42 -0700, George Gambill wrote:
> A neighbors daughter has a report (high school) on her Win XP Home box. Win
> XP Home has decided not to play.
>
> I think I should be able to use Knoppix 3.3 (AZOTO) to Mount the XP Home
> drive (and the Floppy as DOS) and copy the report to the Floppy.
>
> Would anyone be kind enough to provide me with the commands to do that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
>
>
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