Fun with windows xp..............
Hi All, I am currently trying to recover three hundred media files from a windows system that keeps rebooting. With Puppy fire-hydrant the machine ran for a long time without error. I could access the windows drive and the files I wish to recover. The usb drive was mounted and had read write permissions. the problem was I could only copy ONE file at a time.. ON to Knoppix which also ran well, I could access the directories and bulk copy the files but could not mount the usb drive for some bizarre reason. Went to windows where everything I needed is available but it started rebooting as soon as it got warmed up.. My next course of action may be to remove the drive from the machine so that I can copy the info directly to another drive. However if some one knows a simple fix for the usb mount in Knoppix I would like to hear from you. Regards John
I'd probably do this from the command line anyhow.. "dmesg" will show you where and how the internal and USB drive got detected, "mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk" or similar will mount it. I'd also do the copying from the command line, it will be a little clearer what's going on and where it might be having problems eg "cp -av /media/windows /media/disk" and you can watch the filenames scroll past.
2009/7/26 jaytee@clear.net.nz:
Hi All, I am currently trying to recover three hundred media files from a windows system that keeps rebooting. With Puppy fire-hydrant the machine ran for a long time without error. I could access the windows drive and the files I wish to recover. The usb drive was mounted and had read write permissions. the problem was I could only copy ONE file at a time.. ON to Knoppix which also ran well, I could access the directories and bulk copy the files but could not mount the usb drive for some bizarre reason. Went to windows where everything I needed is available but it started rebooting as soon as it got warmed up.. My next course of action may be to remove the drive from the machine so that I can copy the info directly to another drive. However if some one knows a simple fix for the usb mount in Knoppix I would like to hear from you. Regards John _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:26:21 jaytee@clear.net.nz wrote:
Hi All, I am currently trying to recover three hundred media files from a windows system that keeps rebooting. With Puppy fire-hydrant the machine ran for a long time without error. I could access the windows drive and the files I wish to recover. The usb drive was mounted and had read write permissions. the problem was I could only copy ONE file at a time.. ON to Knoppix which also ran well, I could access the directories and bulk copy the files but could not mount the usb drive for some bizarre reason.
Have you tried copy the files using the command line? ie
Something like
cp -Rv /mnt/path_to_windows_mounted_file system_files/* /media/usb/.
-R recursive (so will include sub directories) -v verbose (so you can watch what is happening)
obviously you'll have to amend the file system paths.
Cheers,
Chris
2009/7/26 jaytee@clear.net.nz:
Hi All, I am currently trying to recover three hundred media files from a windows system that keeps rebooting. With Puppy fire-hydrant the machine ran for a long time without error. I could access the windows drive and the files I wish to recover. The usb drive was mounted and had read write permissions. the problem was I could only copy ONE file at a time..
Puppy 4.2 permits multiple copies. Open two windows, source and destination folders, select source files, drag across to destination window and specify copy.
For some strange reason, Puppy doesn't do it the usual gui copy & paste way.
Michael
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