Can I access the harddrive using liveCD

[frank wang]

Hi,

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.

Thanks

Frank

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:17:53PM -0400, frank wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

Possibly the reason you couldn't see the drive is that you tried
looking for it as /dev/hda; try /dev/sda instead. F7 uses libata,
which has the peculiar effect of making IDE drives appear to be SCSI
drives.

[Vivek J. Patankar]

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. Also, F7live doesn't show the available 
drives on the desktop as I have seen knoppix do.
Hardware detection, by the way, for me was excellent!

[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.

[Rahul Sundaram]

frank wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

It doesn't automount hard disk partitions automatically. File a RFE 
against livecd-tool in http://bugzilla.redhat.com if you want that 
feature. Meanwhile you can use mount to do it manually. FUSE NTFS is 
included in the live images too

Rahul