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hard drive path problem

Asked by Ant

VERY SORRY about accidentally editing someones post.

Ok, i am a newbie at ubuntu and linux and in general, and really need some help.
Ok, i was following a tutorial I found on this site: http://jclark.org/weblog/miscellany/tech/ubrescue.html
on how to save the files on my non-bootable windows hard drive. I have done all of it, and can see windrive on the other windows machine, but my problem is this:
in shared folders, i cannot get a path of /mnt/windrive, which is what I need, and I also looked on Gparted, which says the path for my hard drive ( /dev/sda1) is /dev/sda
Now i don't know, but i figured that if I could change, in GParted, the path from /dev/sda to /mnt/windrive, I might be able to find it in shared folders...and thus everything would work. (thats the plan anyway)

If you can help that'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#1

If I have understood you want to mount the windows partion in /mnt/windrive. To do it you open a shell and than do this:

# to create the directory
sudo mkdir /mnt/windrive

#mount your device /dev/sda1 - gparte visualizes the block device sda
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/windrive

#to run nautilus with root privilage to do all with your files
sudo nautilus

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Ant (m3nt4l1st) said : 		#2

ok, I've created the directory, as you've said, and I've mounted the device.
Now, i tried sudo nautilus, but it said:
libgnomevfs-WARNING **: ___________________ ...

but, what i was trying to say, was that after I've mounted the windows partition in /mnt/windrive, I want to be able to access the files in it, that were there when I was running windows, on another windows pc, via LAN network, so I can recover my files.

I have now downloaded pysdm, and tried to change the path to /mnt/windrive, so that I can access the files by going to /mnt/windrive, and then I've shared that folder over the network.

I can see the folder...but it is full of loads of random files (I do not know where they are from...) but my old files from windows are not there....

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Massimo Forti (slackwarelife) said : 		#3

I want to know which version of ubuntu you are using and if you are using a live cd.
You can access to you file on sda1, if you open nautilus (in shell do $nautilus) and you go the diretory /mnt/windrive you can see the files that you serch ???

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#4

Are you wanting to share your /mnt/windrive to other windows machines? If so you might want to look at this page:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba

Another method (easier) for getting the files would be to install winscp on the other window machine, and use that to ssh into your ubuntu machine and drag the files over the network via scp. It works well.

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