Re: Recovering data from old hard drive
Nate Metheny <[email protected]>
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[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? You'll have to examine the partition schema on the drive, (fdisk -l /dev/device, likely sdb, but you can get the device name via examining mount) and then mount the correct partition. Usually it'll just be the one that takes up the most blocks that has home directories on it. It'll be mounting the root (/) of your old machine, so don't get confused. > > 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 -- .==== === -- - -- - - - - - ---. | 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