Comments on: Recovering Windows files with a Ubuntu CD II: getting your files

By: Nakw

Nakw — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:38:36 +0000

thanks for this, it really helped me today. I was going to have to spend upwards of $200 to fix my laptop.

By: Frank Cox

Frank Cox — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:07:39 +0000

I wish I had read this earlier. I have a 200hg WD drive that crashed a year or so ago. There is , I don’t believe, any critical info on it as I had other backups.
I found 20 gb that was usable and turned it into an emergency Ubuntu drive to use to recover data or transfer files ets. .
I would like to see if i could recover the data but the systems says maybe it is the whole drive or a different partition.
Should I delete the uUbutu partition and try again?

By: jane doe

jane doe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:47:26 +0000

hi, i’ve run ubuntu but i still can’t access my files. it says the drives can’t mount, first giving me the string of command you quoted above (but no where to input it) and now telling me unable to mount due to DBus error org…..did not receive a reply, possible causes include: the remote applicationdid not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply tieout expired or the network connection was broken.

That’s what I got after attempts to access my windows file or any other partition. Please help!

By: Mia

Mia — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:12:40 +0000

This saved my stuff from a nasty HD crash. Thanks so much! I never even knew this was possible before tonight.

By: Aditya Sengupta

Aditya Sengupta — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:04:26 +0000

AP:

sudo mkdir /media/Windowsmountpoint
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/Windowsmountpoint -o force

By: AP

AP — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:55:35 +0000

Musing… what happens if Ubuntu can’t mount the partition in question? I was trying to do this on someone’s computer when a notice came up that Ubuntu couldn’t mount the Windows XP NTFS partition because it was “dirty” — it hadn’t been shut down right because the computer had crashed and Windows hadn’t been able to “close” the partition properly. The Ubuntu error message gave a command to try in the terminal to force a mount, but that didn’t work. The drive was definitely still spinning, and the screen made references to Windows files missing when attempting a normal boot, so I know it wasn’t damaged beyond recovery. Any ideas?

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:21:38 +0000

Hi, Anna. Check out the the previous post (at the bottom of it) for details on how to get Ubuntu.

By: Anna Risveglia

Anna Risveglia — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:01:18 +0000

Please can you let me know where I can get a Ubuntu CD or DVD? Thanking you in anticipation