How rescue unbootable Windows PC, Windows files
through files Network copy to remote server shared Folder using
Hirens Boot CD
I'm
rescuing some files from one unbootable Windows XP using
a livecd with
Hirens Boot CD 13
In order to rescue the three NTFS Windows partitions files, I
mounted them after booting a
Mini Linux from Hirens Boot
CD.
Mounting NTFS using
Hirens BootCD went quite smoothly to
mount the 3 partitions I used cmds:
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
After the three NTFS file partitions are mounted I used
smbclient to list all the available Network Shares on the
remote
Network Samba Shares Server which by the way
possessed the NETBIOS name of
SERVER ;)
# smbclient -L //SERVER/
Enter root's password:
Domain=[SERVER] OS=[Windows 7 Ultimate 7600] Server=[Windows 7
Ultimate 6.1]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
!!!MUSIC Disk
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
C$ Disk Default share
Canon Inkjet S9000 (Copy 2) Printer Canon Inkjet S9000 (Copy
2)
D$ Disk Default share
Domain=[SERVER] OS=[Windows 7 Ultimate 7600] Server=[Windows 7
Ultimate 6.1]
Server Comment
--------- -------
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
Further on to
mount the //SERVER/D network samba
drive - (the location where I wanted to transfer the files from
the above 3 mounted partitions):
# mkdir /mnt/D
# mount //192.168.0.100/D /mnt/D
#
Where the IP
192.168.0.100 is actually the local network IP
address of the
//SERVER win smb machine.
Afterwards I used
mc to copy all the files I needed to
rescue from all the 3 above mentioned win partitions to the mounted
//SERVER/D