On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 12:13, Thijs Koetsier wrote:
Hi all,
Does anybody know how I can access / mount a used harddisk in Debian, so
I can read back the data on the Harddisk? I can only find information
about adding a new harddisk to Linux.
The harddisk comes from another PC which doesn't work anymore, but the
disk should be okay and I would like to retrieve some data.
Connect the harddisk to the system
Find out which device it is (hda = Primary master, hdb= Primary Slave,
hdc = secondary master, hdd = sec. slave etc)
Find out what partition you want (fdisk /dev/hdx; p; q)
Or if you have the file /proc/partitions check that file.
Mount the partition, if it is a windows filesystem use either ntfs or
vfat.
mount /dev/hdx1 /mnt -t vfat
See the 'mount', 'fdisk' and 'mount.vfat' manual pages