Re: Recovering data from old hard drive
"Matthew Bowie" <[email protected]>
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Looks /boot was put on a separate partition. Try mounting the next one. For instance if you mounted /dev/sdc1, try /dev/sdc2, that should be your root directory. Matt On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I put the FC4 drive in an external USB enclosure and I can see some files but how do I get to my home directory? > > mstarnes@Kubuntu:/media/-boot$ ls -al > total 10335 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2005-11-20 21:40 . > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-04-29 14:02 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56991 2005-06-02 21:03 config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60376 2005-11-09 16:30 config-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2005-11-20 20:06 grub > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1708104 2005-11-19 16:58 initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1699812 2005-11-20 20:06 initrd-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.img > drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2005-11-19 09:39 lost+found > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94600 2005-03-28 15:08 memtest86+-1.55.1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 764778 2005-06-02 21:03 System.map-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 801712 2005-11-09 16:30 System.map-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1639539 2005-06-02 21:03 vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1558522 2005-11-09 16:30 vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189050 2005-08-23 12:58 xen-3.0-devel.gz > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-11-20 20:45 xen-3.0.gz -> xen-3.0-devel.gz > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-11-20 20:45 xen-3.gz -> xen-3.0-devel.gz > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-11-20 20:45 xen.gz -> xen-3.0-devel.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1925848 2005-08-23 12:58 xen-syms-3.0-devel > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Nate Metheny <[email protected]> > > [email protected] wrote: > > > Thanks but I tried it both ways. First with my DVD drive disconnected > > > from the IDE cable and the HD set to master. Then with the DVD > > > reconnected and set to master, HD set to slave. Both ways it tried to > > > boot from the IDE drive. > > > > Hm, interesting. Did you try using secondary IDE and not primary? > > > > > > > > Eric, maybe I should buy an external usb HD enclosure. I have some > > > other old drives I want to look at too. Thanks for your offer and > > > thanks for the idea. > > > > > > Mike -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: > > > Nate Metheny <[email protected]> > > >> [email protected] wrote: > > >>> I want to copy my home directory from an old FC4 IDE hard drive. > > >>> The FC4 box won't boot so I put the hard drive in my Kubuntu > > >>> system. Now the Kubuntu box tries to boot the FC4 drive. Tried to > > >>> change the boot sequence in BIOS but it won't allow me to set the > > >>> SATA drive with Kubuntu first. This is an Intel D945GCcr > > >>> motherboard. Is there another parameter I need to change in BIOS > > >>> or is there something else I'm missing? > > >> Primary IDE Master will always boot first, as SATA is an auxiliary > > >> controller. > > >> > > >> Jumper the drive to slave and try again. > > >> > > > > -- > > .==== === -- - -- - - - - - ---. > > | Nate Metheny IT Group Leader | > > | Santa Fe Institute office 505.946.2730 | > > | cell 505.795.3347 fax 505.982.0565 | > > | http://www.santafe.edu [email protected] | > > `--- - -- - - -- - = == ===' > > _______________________________________________ > > NMLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug > > _______________________________________________ > NMLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug > -- Matthew Bowie Programmer/IT Consultant [email protected] _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug