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Richard Brown wrote:
I'd say probably re-download a new copy direct from the Ubuntu.com site. 9.04 is the latest version, at least downloading the Desktop CD you know it's going to work.Hi Rob 2009/9/22 Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:Thanks for all the help with the network issue. Sorry I haven't got back to folks yet, I have only just got over a rather heavy cold. In the meantime, I need to try to recover files from a xp/vista down/upgrade that went wrong. I'm told the files are still there just not viewable and that a Linux distro will be able to recover them quite easily. So which distro and where do I download it from please?You could try the Ubuntu Live Desktop CD. It should *hopefully* detect the drive and allow you to mount it to recover the files. If it doesn't mount it then you may have to use ntfsfix (can't remember if its on the live CD, you may need to install it). If it isn't installed, from a terminal window on the live CD run the following: sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs Then from a terminal window, run ntfsfix. You'll need to know the partition (i.e. sda1, sda2 etc). You can find this out by running fdisk -l. Here's the output from my laptop... rob@laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7f33fd84 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 7650 61440000 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 7651 10081 19527007+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 10082 30323 162593865 83 Linux /dev/sda4 30324 30401 626535 82 Linux swap / Solaris As you can see, /dev/sda1 is NTFS formatted. So if I was to fix this partition I would run... sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1 This would any errors on the partition and then allow me to mount it (either from the desktop or from a terminal window).Thanks for the reply. I have a copy of Ubuntu 8.04.1 lts desktop edition. But it won't run from the cd rom. It is the one that the dcglug produced. I thought a live version would boot from within xp. I have tried booting from start-up and have set the cd rom as the first boot device but it didn't recognise the cd. Any ideas please?
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