[Gllug] Unable to mount hibernated drive E:

John G Walker johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 4 13:15:32 UTC 2009



On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:53:20 +0000 Diana Scott
<dianascott1 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> I have a data drive “drive E:” created by windows xp so that
> I could mount the drive and share the data when I use ubuntu 8.10.
> However, when the windows xp drive C: in hibernated mode, I am not
> able to mount the drive to have access to the data in drive E: from
> linux.
> 
>  
> 
> Do you know how to gain access to drive E: while the drive
> C: in hibernated mode?

You won't be able to, since, in order to access the drive, the windows
operating system has to do some work.

It's the windows PC that hibernates, not just the drive,

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 John
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