49ermike wrote: > Recently one of the hard drives in my PC crashed. The hard drive > contained programs and my Windows OS. My second drive contained my > media files (pictures, movies, music). I purchased a new hard drive, > and was planning to install Debian (I can't find my original Windows > XP CD). Will I be able to access the files on my second hard drive in > Linux?
Assuming the drive was formatted NTFS, you will be able to read, but unable to write to the drive. This is fine, since then you can copy the contents over to a temporary location on the new drive, reformat the drive to something you can write to, then move the backup files to the original drive (under the new formatting, of course). If the drive was formatted FAT32, then you will be able to write as well as read. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
