Using that information you can find out which partition is where the files you need are located. As mentioned in the answer above, use fdisk to see the partitions. Those partitions might include recovery, unused space, etc.
How do I go about formatting the hard drive and make it usable for my Linux system? From what I have read I have to do something like mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdbĬan some one direct me to what I actually need to do?ĭepending on who set up the old Windows machine (ie: if it's from HP, Lenovo, etc) you may have many different partitions on the disk that you normally wouldn't see with Windows. Once I have successfully mounted the hard drive and copied the files. Then after this I mount using the following command sudo mount -ro /dev/sdb /media/MicrosoftĬan some one tell me what I am doing wrong, and how I can mount the right partition? Here is what I am doingĮdit fstab and add the following: /dev/sdb /media/Microsoft ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 I need to get some files of this hard drive, but when I try to mount the hard drive all that seems to mount is the /boot partition. This hard drive is currently NTFS file format, the Disk info is as follows description: ATA DiskĬapabilities: partitioned partitioned:dosĬonfiguration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=000c6181 So I decided to put the hard drive into my Ubuntu server. I had an old Windows machine which recently died.
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