Recovery from Acer Aspire One with Linpus

deltec · 12-07-2009, 06:26 AM

Hi

I have been asked to try to recover documents from an Acer Aspire One. It has Linpus Linux on it and will only boot to a black screen with a movable mouse pointer. If I press control c during bootup I get a command prompt (user@localhost¬) I can dir and see dcuments etc. but do not know any way to copy them on to a flash drive or network. Acer are no help (use the recovery CD). Any help you can give me to recover this important data would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

asilsdorf · 12-07-2009, 11:06 AM

I'm not familiar with Linpus Linux but it sounds like you are not getting to the X desktop. How much data are you looking to recover?

If you have a USB drive insert it and see if it gets mounted using the command

Code:

df -k

On ubuntu mine shows up under /media/disk-1. If the USB drive shows up you could copy everything in the user's home directory to the drive using

Code:

cp -pr /home/<USERNAME> <USB drive>

In my case it would be

Code:

cp -pr /home/user1 /media/disk-1

Obviously you would need a USB drive with enough free space.

jefro · 12-07-2009, 04:23 PM

If you make a Live linux bootable usb or cd (if supported) you can boot to a similar linux screen and use the gui if you can't get the command line to work.

deltec · 12-08-2009, 02:28 AM

Hi

Thanks everyone. I made a bootable Unbuntu flash drive, booted and copied everything to my Windows network - simple!

Thanks again.