tycopolis
04-21-2007, 09:07 PM
Hello everyone... I recently had problems uprading my Ubuntu, and now I need to recover some things. Here's a list of what I need to recover:
1. Thunderbird email
2. Firefox bookmarks
3. Directories / Folders that have ALL of my data in them.
I have a 40GB Hard Drive that I took out of an old machine. I put the Hard Drive into a USB HDD Enclosure. I connected the usb cable to my laptop and then booted using knoppix 4.0. I ran QTparted and it seems that the drive has 3 Partitions. Here's how it is listed in QTparted:
01 /UNIONFS/dev/sdb1 fat16 54.88MB
02 /UNIONFS/dev/sdb2 ntfs Active 37.20GB
03 /UNIONFS/dev/sdb-1 free 1.03GB
Now for my ?'s.
1. Can I just copy my data to the External drive without doing any partitioning or formatting? Once my Ubuntu is back up and running, will I be able to just simply copy them back?
2. How can I delete everything on this External drive, and use it like a regular "thumb / flash" drive?
Thanks for all your help...
1. Thunderbird email
2. Firefox bookmarks
3. Directories / Folders that have ALL of my data in them.
I have a 40GB Hard Drive that I took out of an old machine. I put the Hard Drive into a USB HDD Enclosure. I connected the usb cable to my laptop and then booted using knoppix 4.0. I ran QTparted and it seems that the drive has 3 Partitions. Here's how it is listed in QTparted:
01 /UNIONFS/dev/sdb1 fat16 54.88MB
02 /UNIONFS/dev/sdb2 ntfs Active 37.20GB
03 /UNIONFS/dev/sdb-1 free 1.03GB
Now for my ?'s.
1. Can I just copy my data to the External drive without doing any partitioning or formatting? Once my Ubuntu is back up and running, will I be able to just simply copy them back?
2. How can I delete everything on this External drive, and use it like a regular "thumb / flash" drive?
Thanks for all your help...