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Linux noob – I’m booting from an Ubuntu Live CD to replace a bad sys file, what do I need to know?
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ok I see you are using linux to try and delete something
from windows, go to places, filesystem and look for a folder
called host, everything from windows should be there and you
can just search the windows folders to find the file you want
replaced.
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C:Windowssystem32DRIVERSvolsnap.sys
the path to your file,
you may have a little problem though, you will need root access to your windows to delete and replace the file, otherwise its read only,
thats one idea of a live cd – you do not make changes to the installed system,
i’m not sure that ubuntu can do what you want, but i do know that knoppix can, all you do is mount the drive and su to root and start konqueror, navigate to the file and delete then replace,
if it doesn’t work then just right click on the desktop icon and change the permissions to read/write and try again,
oh – to get root privileges in knoppix just open a terminal and type su then press enter, then just type konqueror and press enter
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Okay, I forget how to mount your hard drive, but go to places on the menu bar and you should be able to do that. Once you have it mounted, make a note of the name of the device, usually something like /media/hd/ and open a terminal. Type cd to move around the drive. cd .. means move up a directory (or folder). Thus it would be something like
cd /media/hd
cd windows
cd sys32…
That’s how you get to the file location. Use sudo before the commands to replace it as in sudo mv -v /home/user/volsnap.sys .
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