Comments in-line From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ubuntu USB installer
> I've not done this lately, but in the past I have downloaded and run "live linux" installs from a CD. Typically, > this will let one browse the local hard drives... > Yep. Quite common. > > Now, depending on the distro, some will let you mount a USB drive and make it writable. (Some make this more > difficult than is necessry, but again it's been a couple of years.) One writable, then one should be able to ? > copy data from the local HD to the USB drive. > Yep. I last used Xubuntu. Very good distro for lighter-weight systems. In this case it was a P3 with 512 MB RAM and it runs like a screaming banshee! It also auto-detected and mounted a USB Memory stick for me and popped open a display window showing the contents of said USB drive. > > > In the past, I've also encountered a failed HD with several Gb data to recover. In that case, I mounted a second > internal HD (this is before terrabyte USB hard drives became cheap), booted off the live CD, and was able to copy > most of the data to newer HD. (For some reason, this failed drive could not be read when mounted as a second > drive in an XP box. Linux read it with no problem - go figure!) > Yeah... Not sure why that is, but it makes it a lot easier sometimes. :D ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
