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    Senior Member very_unhappy's Avatar
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    data recovery ... specificaly from ntfs to ext3

    does anyone know what "live CD" can enable me to move files from ntfs partition to ext3 partition

    i have live knoppix which can mount both partition buy ext3 is read only

    i also have live ubuntu so if you know 'bout any way to make those to mount partitions w/ full rights that would suffice

    pls .. any help
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    Re: data recovery ... specificaly from ntfs to ext3

    Originally posted here by very_unhappy
    does anyone know what "live CD" can enable me to move files from ntfs partition to ext3 partition

    i have live knoppix which can mount both partition buy ext3 is read only

    i also have live ubuntu so if you know 'bout any way to make those to mount partitions w/ full rights that would suffice

    pls .. any help
    If it is your machine, your hardware and you have admin rights why not just take control of the files?

    But any NTFS capable linux platform will allow you to mount the NTFS partition and copy the data off of that partition. They cannot change the permissions because most of them mount in read-only. But you can easily take permissions with the administrator account.

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    see this thread

    http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=276536

    how can I make live cd distro take writable control over the hda (ext3) i just need to
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    if your live cd mounts your ext3 partation as read only just remount it
    example

    hda1 - ntfs
    hda2 - ext3

    mkdir /mnt/hda2
    mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 rw -t ext3

    mkdir /mnt/hda1
    mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -t ntfs

    bam.. your ntfs is read only being write support is still alittle hit or miss.. and your ext3 partition is writeable.

    happy recovery
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    Originally posted here by very_unhappy
    see this thread

    http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=276536

    how can I make live cd distro take writable control over the hda (ext3) i just need to
    My guess is that the live cd automounts the ext3 partition as ro (read-only), so you just need to remount it as rw (read-write). Assuming that the ext3 partition is hda1 and that it's currently mounted at /mnt/hda1
    Code:
    mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda1

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    thanx guys
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