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I recently replaced the Windows by Ubuntu and I have any files in my Disc. When I had Windows. How Can I Do to access $ sudo fdisk -l to I to recover my disc?

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You need only identify which partition it is on and mount it in the location of your choice.

We can use parted to identify the partition like so:

mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST1000LM014-1EJ1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  1050MB  1049MB  ntfs            Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      1050MB  1322MB  273MB   fat32           EFI system partition          boot, hidden
 3      1322MB  2371MB  1049MB  fat32           Basic data partition          hidden
 4      2371MB  2505MB  134MB                   Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 5      2505MB  503GB   500GB   ntfs            Basic data partition          msftdata
 6      503GB   653GB   150GB   ext4                                          msftdata
 8      653GB   936GB   283GB   ext4                                          msftdata
 7      936GB   952GB   16.4GB  linux-swap(v1)
 9      952GB   979GB   26.8GB  ntfs            Basic data partition          msftdata
10      979GB   1000GB  21.5GB  ntfs            Basic data partition          hidden, diag


Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system).  /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: /dev/sr0: unrecognised disk label                                  

mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$

From the output on my terminal we can make a good guess that the largest ntfs partition, shown here as partition 5 on drive /dev/sda , is my primary Windows partition. Now we just need to mount it up somewhere. For the sake of simplicity, I'll create a directory within my home directory.

  1. Create the mount point (can be anywhere, theoretically, but it's best to choose somewhere under /mnt , /media , or /home/$USER/ . In my example, I'll create a directory called /home/mgodby/windrive to mount it to. ls -ll will verify that the directory is indeed present.

    mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$ mkdir -v /home/mgodby/windrive
mkdir: created directory ‘/home/mgodby/windrive’
mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$ ls -ll /home/mgodby | grep windrive
drwxrwxr-x  2 mgodby mgodby    4096 Oct  8 12:11 windrive
mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$

  2. Now we just mount the windows partition in our new directory and verify that everything is there.

    mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$ sudo mount.ntfs -v /dev/sda5 /home/mgodby/windrive
mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$ ls -ll /home/mgodby/windrive
total 19446553
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root        4096 Nov 14  2013 avast! sandbox
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root        8192 Oct 11  2012 Boot
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      398156 Jul 25  2012 bootmgr
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root           1 Jun 18  2013 BOOTNXT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root        8192 Oct  9  2012 BOOTSECT.BAK
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root        4743 Nov 29  2013 comcastrelease.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root           2 Apr  7  2014 END
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  6759346176 Oct  7 23:37 hiberfil.sys
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12884901888 Oct  7 23:37 pagefile.sys
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root           0 Aug 22  2013 PerfLogs
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root       20480 Oct  7 23:51 ProgramData
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root       20480 Oct  7 23:51 Program Files
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root       28672 Oct  7 23:51 Program Files (x86)
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root        4096 Feb  3  2013 PSFONTS
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root        4096 Jan 27  2013 Python33
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root           0 Dec 18  2013 Recovery
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root           0 Jan 19  2014 $Recycle.Bin
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root        4096 Dec  8  2012 Remote Programs
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   268435456 Oct  7 23:38 swapfile.sys
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root        4096 Sep 21 23:22 System Volume Information
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root           0 May  5 15:54 temp
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root           0 Dec  8  2012 UserGuidePDF
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root        4096 Dec 18  2013 Users
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root       28672 Sep 26 17:45 Windows
mgodby@mgodby-UDesk1:~$

Now just open that directory and browse your entire Windows partition just like you would any other directory.

EDIT: This process can be used with any other partition on your drive as well. Be sure to use the proper mount command according to the partition type, i.e. mount.fat for fat32 or mount.ntfs for ntfs.

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