Bubbling…

I recovered yet another fatally crashed computer with a linux live cd and yet the term Linux Life-saver(tm) given to that Fedora live-cd!!  and the credit goes to that specific cd!!  My friend called me, worried about his just-uploaded video files.  And he didn’t have any other copy.  Using some weird program he wanted to optimize his computer, and his computer crashed with the next restart.  So he called me, and I told him put your fedora live cd in and boot your computer with that.  Then we recovered his files with ntfs-3g (now the credit goes to developers of this utility).  So I thought I would post it here on how we did it, very simple.

1) restart your computer with any linux live cd ( really, all of them would work )

2) install ntfs-3g and ntfs-config.  In fedora:

$ su -c ‘yum install ntfs-3g ntfs-config’

3) GNOME:  go to System > Administration > ntfs configuration tool

KDE 3.5:  Kmenu > System > ntfs configuration tool

KDE 4:  Alt+F2 ( run command ) and search for ntfs and click on ntfs configuration tool

4)  it gives you some choices of HDDs.  check the one you want to enable and click on Auto configure

5)  fire up a file manager and put into your computer a cd, or even better, a USB disk and start moving your files and backing up your windows drive!