BitRogue
April 23rd, 2009, 10:43 AM
My apologies if the wrong forum, but since there is no category for 'Live CD' or 'disaster recovery', I figure the next most applicable section is this one.
I was 'almost' the hero on the team the other day when one of the (lady) consultants on our project came up and asked if I could assist her in getting her data off her (Windows) laptop so it could be rebuilt. It transpired that something had gone wrong and she couldnt boot and was really worried she wouldnt see her data again.
No worries. I have my trusty bootable USB flashdrive with an Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD on it. This thing can do ANYTHING.
Boots up fine (more life than she's seen on that laptop the whole day, her eyes are shining and shes starting to sing praises to the great god of Linux). Connect the backup external hard drive. Open up Nautilus and try to mount the internal hard drive. And THATS where it all went wrong. A huge error box is displayed about how the last useage of the drive wasnt shutdown cleanly, and some sort of convoluted error dump which mentions NTFS a couple of times. (Because it was an NTFS drive)
So Im curious, WTF?!?! Do Ubuntu Live CDs no longer contain NTFS kernel drivers? This is one application I thought it would be imperative that would include all manner of file system compatibility, even if it was just read only.
I was 'almost' the hero on the team the other day when one of the (lady) consultants on our project came up and asked if I could assist her in getting her data off her (Windows) laptop so it could be rebuilt. It transpired that something had gone wrong and she couldnt boot and was really worried she wouldnt see her data again.
No worries. I have my trusty bootable USB flashdrive with an Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD on it. This thing can do ANYTHING.
Boots up fine (more life than she's seen on that laptop the whole day, her eyes are shining and shes starting to sing praises to the great god of Linux). Connect the backup external hard drive. Open up Nautilus and try to mount the internal hard drive. And THATS where it all went wrong. A huge error box is displayed about how the last useage of the drive wasnt shutdown cleanly, and some sort of convoluted error dump which mentions NTFS a couple of times. (Because it was an NTFS drive)
So Im curious, WTF?!?! Do Ubuntu Live CDs no longer contain NTFS kernel drivers? This is one application I thought it would be imperative that would include all manner of file system compatibility, even if it was just read only.