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

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Wed, 04 May 2011 16:48:13 +0000

Oh, thanks for the reminder. In Windows 7 (and possibly Vista, too), the documents live in C:\Users and not C:\Documents and Settings.

I’ll update the blog post accordingly.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:44:25 +0000

And what happens if the Documents and Settings folder just shows as blank? is there a way to take ownership of it or something?
email me if you can help please, Bicboy.2000 (at) gmail.com

By: chris

chris — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:07:53 +0000

Im using the most new Ubuntu CD ISO, and ‘Trying ubuntu’..it boots up,takes me to the desktop…from here I cannot see the harddrive of my previous windows vista..I click on places, not there, i click on Computer, still not there.. even did a fdisk -l and nothing. anything else I could do to get this windows hd to show up? ps: it just shows me all the detail of whats on the cd..not any harddrive whatsoever

By: JD

JD — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:39:51 +0000

I love you! Thought I’d lost all the pictures and videos of my daughter growing up but this saved me and the photos. Alot easier than trying to make a usb xp boot disk!

Thanks a million

By: Row

Row — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:32:57 +0000

Thanks so much for this series of posts. LIFESAVER.

By: lobert

lobert — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:37:55 +0000

yup thats me. how to get details of certain spec like

Partitions:
Output of lspci and lspci -n:

By: Zimmer

Zimmer — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:12:50 +0000

http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9890890

or is this you already asking at the Ubuntu forums?

Give them a clue as to the actual specs of the computer you are using.. :)

Check the disk for defects, clean it, try again, if not working burn another ISO disk (check the instructions, just in case) at a slower speed..

By: lobert

lobert — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:37:25 +0000

i manage to boot from my cd rom but i got this

“BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-|ubuntu11) built in shell (ash)

Enter ‘help’ for a list of built in commands.

(initramfs) can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem-squaslfs) on //filesystem.squaslifs”

what shld i do?

By: lobert

lobert — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:14:40 +0000

hi,

i have burn a cdr but the computer cant seem to boot from the cd. what went wrong? have reset my bios to boot from my dvdrom oredi

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.