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Finding Hard drives
I too am a newbie to Knoppix. I booted up from the CD and everything went great. I am impressed that this OS works so well from the CDRom. My main purpose in trying this program was to recover some files on a secondary hard drive that Windows XP cannot access due to a possibly bad boot sector. (at least that seems like it). What I am trying to do is access this hard drive and copy my data files to CD so that I can reformat that hard drive. My problem is, I cannot find my hard drives with Knoppix. I tried a search, but my C, D, & E drives do not show up. Only the Knoppix drive shows. Am I looking in the wrong place, or do I need to do something different at boot up. Everything else in Knoppix seems to work.
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You're looking in the wrong place. From the K menu > System > More Programs > File Manager Super User Mode.
Use this to navigate to /etc/fstab
Open fstab in any text editor and remove the # from each line under
# partitions found by Knoppix
one of which will be the hard drive you want. Save the edited file.
Reboot.
then do (as root) mount -t vfat /dev/hd?? /mnt
or mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /mnt
depending on whether the file system is vfat or ntfs
the hd?? would be hda for the first hard drive (primary master) hdb for the primary slave and so on. The first partition is represented by hd?1 and so on.
You'll see clues by reading /etc/fstab
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Thanks so much for the help! I am sure that would have taken me a lot of searching and trial and error to have come up with it. Now, off to resolve my issues.......
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