I Run 12.04 LTS on a HP Pavillion Notebook with 250GB GB HDD. I recently found an emutlaor and noticed something weird. I had a Z: Drive and C: Drive. The C: Drive is the same as it was in windows. My Vista Installation Went belly Up and got a BSOD at loading the OS. Is it possible to access these folders to see if I can recover anything?
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It is possible that you still have the Windows partition on your drive. To double check, Run sudo fdisk -l to list the partitions. It will give you an output similar to,
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00008ec7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1013 8136891 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda2 1014 1044 249007+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1014 1044 248976 83 Linux
Notice the /dev/sdaX part. If you have Windows, it may show up as Extended or VFAT or NTFS depending on the file system.
To view the files in the partition, you need to mount it first. In your home directory, create a folder called win and then mount it by typing
$ mkdir win
$ mount /dev/sda2 win
If all goes well, then you will be able to do a cd win and then an ls to list all your files.
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I do not have Windows any more. When I installed I got rid of it, but the partition is still there.– FoxyRK9Commented Jun 24, 2013 at 22:02
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You should be able to access the contents of the partition using the method described above.– PravCommented Jun 24, 2013 at 22:07
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Thank you for your help, my uncle went through and found nothing from windows existing. It's Okay I made back ups before the BSOD, but using my netbook I have new stuff to put on this machine.– FoxyRK9Commented Jun 24, 2013 at 22:37