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Old 06-25-2014, 07:04 PM   #1
paulie_linux
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Im attempting to use Linux boot cd to copy files between a non bootable internal sata windows hard drive and an external usb hard disk drive. Im using a recent version of Ubuntu and quite the Linux admin newbie. after some research I found the following command to mount the internal hard drive.

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

the command processes and creates 2 folders (sources) (system volume information) both are blank and 2 files boot.sdi and winpartition.ini. I don't know what the do but the /mnt folder contains nothing else and is empty of any data
I was hoping to mount my internal drive to see the contents of the windows vista hard drive.

can you give me the correct command? what would be the command to mount a external Toshiba hard drive usb?
 
Old 06-25-2014, 07:24 PM   #2
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I would guess that sda1 is the recovery partition and sda2 is probably the OS partition. You can use the fdisk command to see how the drive is actually partitioned.

sudo fdisk -l (That is a small L)

The external drive should be sdb and the command would be the same as the internal except for the device ID and mount directory.

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/mount_point

Most likely the USB is NTFS but for FAT use vfat as the file system type.
 
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