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cha0sunity
03-04-2010, 04:55 PM
A friend of mine brought her laptop to me with a crashed XP install. I've been able to boot to a KNOPPIX live cd, but when I try ato access ths laptop's hard drive I get the following message,
Unable to mount device "Error org.freedesktop.HAL.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure"
Does anyone have any ideas how to mount the hard drive or is it dead?
Thanks for the help
-- Cha0s
klaus2008
03-04-2010, 06:21 PM
You might try to do the mount operation manually. Which Knoppix version do you use?
When I got such an error message I opened a terminal and entered
sudo mkdir /media/myHdd
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/myHdd
Then I got an explanation what went wrong and what I had to do next.
Maybe you have to use another partition instead of /dev/sda1. You can get a list of the available partitions by executing
sudo fdisk -l
cha0sunity
03-04-2010, 11:34 PM
I'm using KNOPPIX 6. I did what you said and manually mounted the hdd. I had to force mount it because XP "improperly" shut down and the system was still showing that it was active. After force mounting it i was able to get to the data on it. It's slow going but I'm pulling it off now. Thanks for the help.
-- cha0s
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