I think I can explain it here
briefly
You will need to determine on which drive your Windows installation is or on which drive it is that you want to recover data from. This is if you don't know already though, so to do this type fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -l
(On other distributions you might require to su to root).
Mine in particular looks like this:
Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 11876 74911095 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 11877 14444 20627460 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 14445 14593 1196842+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 2551 11876 74911063+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 11983 14593 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 2 11982 96237382+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2 11982 96237351 7 HPFS/NTFS
As we can see sda1, sda5 and sdb5 are all NTFS drives, so now we need to mount these and make them readable. I know sda1 for me is my 'C' drive on Windows and sdb5 is 'D' and sda5 is 'E'. This doesn't really matter but for convenience I'm going to mount them like that.
so: sudo mkdir /mnt/Win_C /mnt/Win_D /mnt/Win_E
This will create your mountpoints. Now let's edit the fstab so that these partitions are permanently mounted.
Open up your fstab as root user with your favorite text editor: sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Code:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/Win_C ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/Win_D ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/Win_E ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
That's how I added mine, you can just change yours according to your HDD's. If you have IDE hard drives it will be /dev/hda and not sda
. Now for the final part:
sudo mount -a
That will mount all your drives in fstab. Now you can browse to /mnt/Win_C or whichever you created with your file browser (Konqueror/Nautilus/Thunar) or do ls /mnt/Win_C to see whether you can see the files 8-)
Hope this helps someone sometime
