Monday, October 24, 2011

How to get files from your crashed hard disk.

Step 1
boot the machine using live cd.

Step 2
press ctrl+alt+F2.Now You are in non gui mode


Step 3
Type fdisk -l
Now you can see what are available partitions in hard disk.
lets assume you need to mount /dev/sda1

Step 4
make directroy to mount the harddisk partition
mkdir /test

Step 5
mount hard disk typing below command
mount /dev/sda1 /test

Step 6
now go to /test directory and you can do any file operation in that partition.
Type ls


cheers
kwak