Re: [opensuse] Finding files with K3b
John Andersen wrote:
On 3/11/2010 5:33 AM, hensandpat@earthlink.net wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On 3/9/2010 2:17 AM, hensandpat@earthlink.net wrote:
I am trying to find files in Windows Vista 64 bit (crashed again), wich are located in c/programfiles/turbotax/ 2008 With opensuse I selected K3b. Than new data project, root, windows, /C, program files and that's it, ofcourse it's there but I don't see it.
Well you have given us half the story.
The missing half is how is your machine set up? Are you running vista in a virtual machine? Are you Dual booting? Is Vista on another machine all together?
Hi, The machine: Gateway 64 bits, dual booting, has Vista installed but crashed, opensuse active.
I see. Well you will have to mount the Vista partition with SUSE first, It won't be referenced as C/ or anything like that. It will be something like /dev/sda1 or such.
Then you have to pick a mount point. If this will be a temporary mount so that you can rescue files, you can mount it at /mnt Then your files will be located at subordinate to that directory. I would mount it read only for now. That way you can't damage any files. You can do this with yast, Partitioner. (BE CAREFUL).
If nothing else yast will tell you the drive/partition name. Look for an unmounted partition of type NTFS. If you find one, change the settings in yast partitioner to have it mounted.
If there are no unmounted NTFS partitions perhaps it is already mounted. Again Yast will tell you that. Just get its Mount point and start surfing that directory with Dolphin (or what ever) looking for your files.
Hi John thanks for your patience, I don't have Dolphin on open suse10, and I am afraid to update it untill I rescue that particu;ar file out of vista. besides I am no good with machine lanquage soo a good way, I think would be to find it with Kb3. For me the best way would be to use kb3, find the file and copy it to a cd. You see windows has an easy listing as you can see above ;windows/programs/turbotax/2008, but I don.t see that sequence with Kb3, of cource it is there ready to be copied, can wew try and explore it this way. Thanks for your helpm John. John H
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On 3/11/2010 5:48 PM, hensandpat@earthlink.net wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On 3/11/2010 5:33 AM, hensandpat@earthlink.net wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On 3/9/2010 2:17 AM, hensandpat@earthlink.net wrote:
I am trying to find files in Windows Vista 64 bit (crashed again), wich are located in c/programfiles/turbotax/ 2008 With opensuse I selected K3b. Than new data project, root, windows, /C, program files and that's it, ofcourse it's there but I don't see it.
Well you have given us half the story.
The missing half is how is your machine set up? Are you running vista in a virtual machine? Are you Dual booting? Is Vista on another machine all together?
Hi, The machine: Gateway 64 bits, dual booting, has Vista installed but crashed, opensuse active.
I see. Well you will have to mount the Vista partition with SUSE first, It won't be referenced as C/ or anything like that. It will be something like /dev/sda1 or such.
Then you have to pick a mount point. If this will be a temporary mount so that you can rescue files, you can mount it at /mnt Then your files will be located at subordinate to that directory. I would mount it read only for now. That way you can't damage any files. You can do this with yast, Partitioner. (BE CAREFUL).
If nothing else yast will tell you the drive/partition name. Look for an unmounted partition of type NTFS. If you find one, change the settings in yast partitioner to have it mounted.
If there are no unmounted NTFS partitions perhaps it is already mounted. Again Yast will tell you that. Just get its Mount point and start surfing that directory with Dolphin (or what ever) looking for your files.
Hi John thanks for your patience, I don't have Dolphin on open suse10, and I am afraid to update it untill I rescue that particu;ar file out of vista. besides I am no good with machine lanquage soo a good way, I think would be to find it with Kb3. For me the best way would be to use kb3, find the file and copy it to a cd. You see windows has an easy listing as you can see above ;windows/programs/turbotax/2008, but I don.t see that sequence with Kb3, of cource it is there ready to be copied, can wew try and explore it this way. Thanks for your helpm John. John H
Well, in that case use Konqueror file manager rather than Dolphin file manager. But again, that is just to find the file. You would still use k3b to find it or you can drag and drop from Konqueror to k3b. But your basic problem here is one of expecting Drive letters to appear. They won't. It will be a directory instead. Also we have not yet established that your Vista partition is actually mounted. That section of your hard drive may simply be ignored by suse. Use Yast to see if it is actually mounted, and if not mount it under /mnt and then start navigating /mnt with Kong till you locate the files. -- _____________________________________ At one time I had a Real Sig. Its been downsized. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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