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hard drive recovery

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I am having troubles with my hdd, and I am not able to launch windows xp anymore. I have xubuntu on a cd (can't install it on the hdd), and I have looked under Places, and there are the following options: ubuntu, trash, desktop, file system, and recent documents. I have looked through all of these, and I don't see anything that I recognize from my hdd. Is there somewhere specific that I should be looking, or do I need to make sure some option is turned on? Also, will I be able to transfer the files to an external hd if I can find the files? Thanks

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#1

Hi

You will be able to transfer the files, we'll just need to get it to look on the hard drive first. Can you do "fdisk -l" (or "sudo fdisk -l", if that doesn't work), and post the results here.

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shrini (shrini) said : 		#2

Try to get Ubuntu CD. load it.
goto Places-> My Computer.
It will show all the hard drives and get your data.
you can copy them on network or pen drive.

Shrini

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help (windyhillsurfer) said : 		#3

there wasn't a my computer option. I tried just using something else (ultimate boot cd), and it ended up doing something so I can boot windows again. I got all of the info off that I needed, so that was the main thing I was trying to do with xubuntu. It is a pretty neat OS though. As long as I can boot windows, I doubt I will be trying xubuntu again with my computer, as I don't want to do anything that may mess it up again. If my computer ends up messing up again, I will be back to try to figure this out.

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james evans (evans8892) said : 		#4

I am trying to get CD from Ubuntu to see external hd format ms dos fat 32. it does not. the only hd it sees is internal osx. I wish to install ubuntu to external hd from cd. I can partition ext hd to free space for ubuntu for 4 G or what it needs. I have found no info on if this is even possible. please email to '<email address hidden>' I have intel core 2 duo, macbook, 10.4.11, 64 g hd free, 1 g
ram. I wish to run ubuntu from external hd, not install to internat hd, not from cd all the time.

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james evans (evans8892) said : 		#5

I am trying to get CD from Ubuntu to see external hd format ms dos fat 32. it does not. the only hd it sees is internal osx. I wish to install ubuntu to external hd from cd. I can partition ext hd to free space for ubuntu for 4 G or what it needs. I have found no info on if this is even possible. please email to '<email address hidden>' I have intel core 2 duo, macbook, 10.4.11, 64 g hd free, 1 g
ram. I wish to run ubuntu from external hd, not install to internat hd, not from cd all the time.