Seeing internal hdd with MiniMe (93a) as LiveCD [kinda]

[wherearethedrives]

New to linux and especially pclinuxos. I'm trying to recover data from an internal hdd (windows xp) through pclinuxos (version: 93a minime) booted from a flash drive.

I'm trying to pull data from the internal hdd but can't figure out how. I haven't tried mounting it in linuxos, most of what i read claims that you need to have files on the windows hdd shared in order for that to be effective.

Any recommendations?

The hdd im trying to recover crashes on windows login screen, windows installation initialization; thus i'm turning to linux to recover data so i can wipe the internal.

Thanks

[Texstar]

0.93a preview release came out 7 years ago and may not contain the required drivers needed to access your internal hard drive. You can go into Configure my computer -> Local Disks -> Manage Disk Partitions and see if the hard drive is seen. If it is a sata drive though you may be out of luck because limited sata support started showing up in the 2007 release if I am remembering correctly.

[wherearethedrives]

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fixed

[Phil]

I have very fond memories of 93a, caught my attention all those years ago. Get a copy of the latest iso and you are good to go.

Check out another "live" distribution called clonezilla which will enable you to clone off a partition or entire drive to another device, read it up.

Once you have a current live version of PClinuxOS you should be good to go copying files as needed.