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About a week ago my desktop stopped being able to completely boot windows 10, it would get stuck on a blue screen. My suspicion is that the hard drive is failing, it's pretty old and lovely, and I ordered a new one. The problem is that I have a bunch of valuable files on it that I want to recover. In the mean time while I wait for my new hard drive, I'm booting linux mint from an external hard drive, and I'm wondering how I can access the files on the hard drive from the usb booted linux, so I can hopefully just move them from the internal drive to the external. I'm super unfamiliar with linux in general, is this even possible?
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Oct 27, 2018 15:56
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Can’t you just use Clonezilla, and clone the original drive? All you need is a thumb drive to boot from.
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Oct 27, 2018 16:28
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I tried to boot to windows from the external drive and that wasn't working, I also created a recovery disk from my wife's computer and that wouldn't boot either, so far the only thing I've gotten to boot is Linux. I figured out how to access the internal hard drive, now the problem is I can't mount the partition on the external drive to copy the files into, I keep getting errors.
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Oct 27, 2018 16:34
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Allright so I solved the problem, got my new hard drive in the mail, installed windows on it, working fine. Also got an enclosure for my old hard drive and I should be able to just move everything over.
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Oct 27, 2018 21:15
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