Can I access the harddrive using liveCD

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:17:57AM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> >>I wonder whether I can access the hard drive from liveCD. My machine
> >>has winXP installed and I want to access the text file using liveCD.
> >>However, I could not see the drive.
> >
> >If you are using FAT or VFAT, then yes. I don't know about NTFS,
> >though.
> 
> Nope. NTFS didn't mount for me.

Ah. Did you modprobe the NTFS drivers first?

> Also, F7live doesn't show the available drives on the desktop as I
> have seen knoppix do.

True. An RFE, perhaps? I used the command line tools.

> Hardware detection, by the way, for me was excellent!

So far (two machines), it has been very good for me.

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