Moving Files

[WillT87]

Is it possible to take files from my windows partition which has some virus and put them on a flash drive with ubuntu?

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Yes. I believe ntfs read-support is built-in to Ubuntu, so you should be able to simply mount the drives and move files between them. The Windows drive should appear in Disks->Media or something - I'm not quite sure how Gnome-magic works.

[WillT87]

Where is Disks?
Under computer all I see is my cd drive and Filesystem

[linuxguymarshall]

You could install a Virus scanner in Ubuntu and scan your Windows partition to remove it. That's why they are there

[WillT87]

Whats a good virus scanner for ubuntu. The only ones I can find are for windows except for AVG that will only scan my ubuntu partition because I cant find my windows

[oldos2er]

Where is Disks?
Under computer all I see is my cd drive and Filesystem

Click "Places" in the top menu, you should see it.

[WillT87]

under places I see

Home Folder
Desktop
Documents
Music
Pictures
Videos
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Computer
CD/DVD Creator
CD/DVD Drive
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Network
Connect to server..
Search For Files
Recent Documents

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Here (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows)'s a nice guide.

It should be under the Computer section. Since it doesn't appear to be there, we'll have to do some trouble shooting.

In a terminal (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/terminal), type


sudo fdisk -l

and paste the output here.

[WillT87]

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6fd86fd8

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

[oldos2er]

Did you do a Wubi install?

Edit: and I should also have asked, do you have two or more physical hard disks?

[WillT87]

What is that?

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Wubi (http://wubi-installer.org/) is a method of installing Ubuntu *within* Windows, so that you do not have to deal with GRUB, and can easily remove it using Windows' Add/Remove Programs control panel.

[oldos2er]

What is that?

If you have to ask, then the answer is most likely no.

[WillT87]

I have one HDD I had xp pro installed first then I installed ubuntu

[WillT87]

Bump

[Xiong Chiamiov]

The reason oldos2er asked is because your fdisk output showed only one partition, which was a Windows partition. It doesn't look like you have Linux installed, from that output at least.

[WillT87]

I am on it right now. Linux and windows look a little different :)

I installed linux with an exe file though which gave me 30gb for linux and the other 220gb for windows

[oldos2er]

"I installed linux with an exe file"

Was it wubi.exe? Because you have only one partition, as Xiong Chiamiov (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=440346) said. Anyway, use Synaptic Package Manager to install clamav or whichever antivirus program you prefer.

[WillT87]

/host is my C:\ drive for windows and it has all of my information

Is it possible to get malwarebytes AV to run I dont know what synaptic package manager is

[WillT87]

What Avs can I run with ubuntu?

[oldos2er]

System, Administration, Synaptic.

[WillT87]

Thanks and yes i did do a wubi install