if you boot off of a live cd, like Dam Small linux or Ubuntu,?
Philip Augustus
2009-05-02 08:08:02 UTC
if you boot off of a live cd, like Dam Small linux or Ubuntu,
Can you see your hard drive?
Five answers:
fuzzywig
2009-05-02 08:19:40 UTC
yes downloading the latest version of ubuntu and booting into the live environment will show any hard drives or attached storage devices
2009-05-02 10:42:08 UTC
Most Linux distributions will detect and be able to see the hard drive that is installed. I use Linux LiveCDs to fix peoples computers when they are having problems. You need to make sure the LiveCD boots into the root account, not a user account. Ubuntu by default disables the root account which makes it harder to work on a hard drive.
wandrie
2016-10-25 09:33:39 UTC
How lengthy did you watch for the stay-cd to do its problem? It has to discover all of your hardware, set up drivers and setup a configuration. it would want to take a jiffy. If the gentle on the optical pressure is blinking and the demanding pressure gentle is blinking i'd wait a lengthy time period longer beforehand canceling out. I truly have used it on a 1000mghz cpu/pc and it would want to take 5 minutes beforehand the computer comes up.
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2009-05-02 08:12:34 UTC
Yes assuming the file structure is for that particular OS
2009-05-02 08:12:55 UTC
i'm trying to think and something is telling me yes but im not so sure. sorry that i couldnt help well enough
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