Re: Can I access the harddrive using liveCD

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:17:57AM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > > I wonder whether I can access the hard drive from liveCD. My machine
> > > has winXP installed and I want to access the text file using liveCD.
> > > However, I could not see the drive.
> >
> > If you are using FAT or VFAT, then yes. I don't know about NTFS,
> > though.
>
> Nope. NTFS didn't mount for me.

Ah. Did you modprobe the NTFS drivers first?
> Also, F7live doesn't show the available drives on the desktop as I
> have seen knoppix do.

True. An RFE, perhaps? I used the command line tools.
> Hardware detection, by the way, for me was excellent!

So far (two machines), it has been very good for me.