Thread: Recovering a hard drive that ran ubuntu 10.04
dear ubuntu forums,
had older pc ran ubuntu 10.04 on, used personal ftp server media center tv, pretty spiff. unfortunately motherboard doesn't seem post right now, i'm working on figuring out, here's problem:
* have important data on hard drive, popped out , tossed other box running windows 7.
* neither windows 7, nor of free utilities have seem able read drive (diskinternals linux reader, explore2fs... think may have used ext4? may issue)
* tried setting drive primary drive on boot bios, sits there
* created bootable usb drive ubuntu 10.04 live , using that, mount old hard drive
* of contents seemed require root access... once setup password, see , confirm of old content on drive , looks (score)
question:
how can boot drive? i'm not totally clear why changing bios didn't solve that. if need reinstall drive, don't want lose data, reinstall wipe out data? also, needed root access view of files... mean they're stored in kind of encrypted state?
sorry lengthy, input appreciated. ideally, i'd able pick os on boot , work on linux drive time time until fix other pc, barring need data off.
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