Iain - I was just about to make the same suggestion myself. Boot from a live CD, plug in your USB hard drive or flash drive (which should mount automatically) and browse the filesystem of your harddrive and pull off anything you need to save that way. <div>
<br></div><div>This is how I always retrieve files when Windows installs have messed up for people and they are about to reinstall. They think it's incredible when I just boot and save their precious files and I guess in a way it is. I always let them have the live CD once I have finished for future disaster recovery. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Good luck with it Barry!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Simon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 December 2010 13:45, Iain dimmock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iainpfx@gmx.co.uk">iainpfx@gmx.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello<br>
<br>
I'm quite a newbie myself but found if I ran ubuntu(a older version) as a live disk on the computer I was able to get to all the stuff stored on the hard drive.<br>
<br>
it was labeled as file -the size of my hard drive, then burnt stuff to cd and did a fresh install<br>
<br>
hope this helps some<br>
<br>
Iain<br>
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> Datum: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:34:26 +0000 (GMT)<br>
> Von: Barry Allen <<a href="mailto:barry_a_14@yahoo.co.uk">barry_a_14@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
> An: <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
> CC: Barry Allen <<a href="mailto:barry_a_14@yahoo.co.uk">barry_a_14@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
> Betreff: [Nottingham] Help with Ubuntu 10.10 - Graphical interface crash (I think!)<br>
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> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I am a Linux novice and I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.4 to 10.10. The<br>
> reason was due to 10.4 refusing me to upgrade an increasing number of<br>
> programs due to authorisation failures. I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 without any<br>
> problems and used it quite happily for a week but then I started the PC as<br>
> normal and since then Ubuntu 10.10 only boots to the command line.<br>
><br>
> The PC did reboot quite a few times since the new installation which I put<br>
> down to a problem with acpi (something that was a problem with 10.4) so I<br>
> added acpi=off to the menu.lst and the number of reboots reduced<br>
> dramatically (still did reboot but not as often).<br>
><br>
> However my main problem is with the graphical interface as I know very<br>
> little about using Linux via the command line.<br>
><br>
> I would normally re-install the operating system, however my wife reminded<br>
> me we have a number of family photos on the hard disk which I forgot to<br>
> backup to the external drive. I don't know how to do this using the command<br>
> line and the directory where the photos are has spaces in the directory name<br>
> (very foolish of me). My external drive is also connected by a USB port<br>
> and I don't know how to find or mount it.<br>
><br>
> Would someone be able to help me. If you are aware of this problem<br>
> (Graphical interface crash) with Ubuntu 10.10 could you provide a solution please.<br>
><br>
> Thank you<br>
><br>
><br>
> Barry<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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