Can I access the harddrive using liveCD

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:17:53PM -0400, frank wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

Possibly the reason you couldn't see the drive is that you tried
looking for it as /dev/hda; try /dev/sda instead. F7 uses libata,
which has the peculiar effect of making IDE drives appear to be SCSI
drives.

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