diomedestydeus
November 13th, 2011, 04:13 AM
Dear Ubuntu Forums,
I had an older PC that I ran Ubuntu 10.04 on, I used it as a personal FTP server as well as a media center for my TV, it was really pretty spiff. Unfortunately the motherboard doesn't seem to post right now, so I'm working on figuring that out, but here's my problem:
* I have important data on that hard drive, I popped it out and tossed it into my other box which is running windows 7.
* Neither Windows 7, nor any of the free utilities I have seem to be able to read that drive (DiskInternals linux reader, explore2fs... I think I may have used ext4? that may be my issue)
* I tried setting that drive as my primary drive on boot from BIOS, but it just sits there
* I created a bootable usb drive with ubuntu 10.04 live and using that, could mount my old hard drive
* Most of the contents seemed to require root access... but once I setup a password, I could see and confirm all of my old content is on that drive and looks good (score)
My question:
How can I just boot from that drive? I'm not totally clear why just changing my bios didn't solve that. If I need to reinstall to that drive, I don't want to lose my data, will a reinstall wipe out that data? Also, I needed root access to view some of my files... does that mean that they're stored in some kind of encrypted state?
Sorry to be lengthy, any input would be greatly appreciated. Ideally, I'd just like to be able to pick my OS on boot and work on the linux drive from time to time until I fix my other PC, but barring that I really need my data off.
I had an older PC that I ran Ubuntu 10.04 on, I used it as a personal FTP server as well as a media center for my TV, it was really pretty spiff. Unfortunately the motherboard doesn't seem to post right now, so I'm working on figuring that out, but here's my problem:
* I have important data on that hard drive, I popped it out and tossed it into my other box which is running windows 7.
* Neither Windows 7, nor any of the free utilities I have seem to be able to read that drive (DiskInternals linux reader, explore2fs... I think I may have used ext4? that may be my issue)
* I tried setting that drive as my primary drive on boot from BIOS, but it just sits there
* I created a bootable usb drive with ubuntu 10.04 live and using that, could mount my old hard drive
* Most of the contents seemed to require root access... but once I setup a password, I could see and confirm all of my old content is on that drive and looks good (score)
My question:
How can I just boot from that drive? I'm not totally clear why just changing my bios didn't solve that. If I need to reinstall to that drive, I don't want to lose my data, will a reinstall wipe out that data? Also, I needed root access to view some of my files... does that mean that they're stored in some kind of encrypted state?
Sorry to be lengthy, any input would be greatly appreciated. Ideally, I'd just like to be able to pick my OS on boot and work on the linux drive from time to time until I fix my other PC, but barring that I really need my data off.