I need help with file recovery via linux opensuse!?
i am trying to recover important data from a laptop with a corrupted hard drive (displaying the error “a disk read error occurred, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart”) i have burnt a live CD (Linux Opensuse), but when i go to install Linux it says that there is not enough space on the disk to install.
i cannot access the disk to delete any files (and plus if i could access the disk i wouldn’t need to use the Linux method) is there any thing that i can do? or is my only option to see a professional.
Thanks.
BTW. i am running windows xp on an acer aspire 5500 laptop.
February 8th, 2012 at 2:57 am
I’m not sure but if you download and burn a copy of Ubuntu which is also Linux you wont need to install it. You can simply run it from the CD and copy any files you need.
February 8th, 2012 at 3:47 am
When running a Live CD, most Linux distros allow you to “Run” from the CD without installing. Im not too familiar with OpenSUSE so they may not have that. Your best bet is to burn an Ubuntu CD since I am 100% sure you can run them from disk as default.
Otherwise the Opensuse disc should have an option.
But once your in Ubuntu you just mount the hard drive, and pull the data you need from it (theirs a bar-addon at the top you can add thats called “Disc Mounter” in terminal by typing (this will “maybe” work in opensuse. not 100% sure tho)
sudo fdisk -l
then we make a mount point
sudo mkdir /media/external (or w/e you want it)
then we mount it (assuming it’s NTFS, sdb1 would be the name of your drive)
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/external
or for FAT 16/32
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/external -o uid=1000,gid=100,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137
then
sudo umount /dev/sdb1
to unmount it, once you pulled your data off