Posted March 3, 201410 yr Hello... My wife uses Windows Vista, as it's what on her PC and she works in IT for the county here, so she needs to stay up on Windows. Her Laptop is starting to show age, such as a broken Ethernet connector and some pixels out in her screen. The hard drive in her machine has a 'restore' that is used, well you know. I have a Pentium PC that I run Linux on and was going to try and load her windows on it. I can remove the drive and mount, all but the 'restore' partition on Linux. I am kind of lost as how to mount it so I can copy the data and put it on a partition on another drive. Has anyone tried something like this? I was hoping that I could move it to a desktop machine and at least get her up in a place better than the lounge chair in the living room where she isn't so distracted. And that her laptop is finally getting to the end of it's useful life. Any suggestions on how to proceed to get the partition usable? When I try, with the little that I know about mounting, it states that there is no mount point. I can see it in "gparted" but many of the options are grayed out. It comes up as sdd4 with the others as 1 - 3. I even tried using the sdd4 target and it says it doesn't exist... Thanks Jack Continue reading...
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