Accessing Windows Documents

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Accessing Windows Documents
started by: ShaunP1989

Posted by ShaunP1989 on April 14 2006,16:25

Im not really sure where abouts I should post this, and Its might of been asked before, but im running DS linux on an old computer from CD, because windows is buggered on that computer, I was just wondering if there is anyway of getting access to documents from windows so that I can transfer them to my new computer.

Any help is appreciated.

Posted by piccolo on April 14 2006,20:39

Extract hard disk from old computer and insert it on new computer.
Use any file administration tool to transfer files: Windows Explorer (Windows), Emelfm (DSL), Konqueror

Posted by anaconda on April 15 2006,15:27

1. Boot with DSL-CD
2. mount the windows drive
3. copy the documents & whatever to a pendrive or wherever you want to copy them.... You could even boot DSL with "toram" option(to free the CD-drive), and write your documents to a CD..

Anything is possible with DSL

ps. you can mount the windows drive with emelfm, just go to /mnt and select hda1, right-click and select mount. Now your windows drive is attached to /mnt/hda1.

If you have several partitions, second partition is hda2 etc..

If you want to copy the files to USB-stick, it can be found in sda1 (/mnt/sda1), and it can be mounted just like hda1...

Posted by piccolo on April 16 2006,19:43

Other interesting method (for Embedded DSL):
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki...._system >