On Tuesday 15 January 2008 12:18:10 pm Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Dave Stevens wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using the recent F9 rawhide live CD to try to recover data from a > > non-booting Windows XP laptop. The CD boots to a command line prompt and > > won't run X. I don't much care. I made a new directory, /mnt/c, and > > successfully mounted the NTFS drive, /dev/sda1 there. [BTW, the NTFS-3G > > mounting correctly detected an unclean shutdown on the NTFS drive and > > correctly set out the command to use if I wanted to force the mount. Some > > nice work has been done there, this used to be like tooth-pulling.] > > > > The data is intact and my immediate job is to get it off the HD and on to > > a working USB hard drive. I have the external drive plugged in and > > powered up and I don't know what device driver to use to attempt to mount > > it. Anyone know? (eg, /dev/usb0??? or what?) > > > > Dave > > It will show up as a SCSI drive. I would expect it to be /dev/sdb1 > if you only have one partition on it, and you do not have any other > hard drives besides the one with XP and the USB drive. > > Mikkel yes, correct, thank you very much. Dave -- There is no single government agency that views sustainability through a broad lens, taking into account the values of the people affected by government decisions. Any model of sustainability that is driven solely by an economic engine is deficient if it is incapable of taking into account social values. Mr. Justice David Vickers, BC Supreme Court in Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia,2007