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My computer is screwed, as some of you might know.

I'm using it now, using a Ubuntu Live CD, as some of you will also know.

I don't know how to get to the data on my hard disk. Any help?

Also, to burn a DVD do I just put in the blank, and then follow the screen?

How is your hard drive formatted? NTFS or FAT32?

I have two disks. Each has two partitions.

One partition is FAT32. One partition is NTFS. Two I can't remember.

You might also want to try those "Windows XP Live CDs".

However, there isn't any particular place where you can find them...

Make a directory for the mount:
mkdir /mnt/win

Change hda1 with corresponding hdd, usually the a is the hard drive "id" and the 1 is the partition number so lets say you want to make parition one & two, just create other dirs but instead of hda1, try hda2.

If your filesystem is fat32:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win

If your filesystem is ntfs:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win

Check if it is mounted:
cd /mnt/win
ls -al

to know where your partitions are and how they are named (hdax, hdbx, whatever), you should use fdisk.

With fdisk, I've figured out 3 of my partitions, bu the leftover is this:

code:

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   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hda2           12504       14592    16779892+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           12504       14592    16779861    7  HPFS/NTFS

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Do I want hda2 or hda5?

Both.  hda2 is probably your FAT32 & hda5 is your NTFS.

hda5

hda2 is an "extended" partition, where you can store many logical partitions (whereas you can only create 4 primary partitions on a drive). thus it's not directly used to store data.

Thanks for your help guys.

I have another problem now.

When I tried to follow nvez's instructions, I wasn't sure what I was doing. I Went to Applications>System Tools>Terminal, and used the commands he gave. I got some error message, so I exited Terminal, and went to Root Terminal. Everything worked then. Now, when I browse to the folders where I've mounted everything, three of them give me an access denied error when I try to view them.



I'm probably using the wrong terminology for a few things becasue I'm just figuring everything out as I go, sorry.