Knoppix Live CD 3.7 on laptop - How do I share C: ?

[Maetryx]

My friend's Compaq Presario 2500 will no longer load Windows. It hangs on atisgkaf.sys when attempting to boot in Safe Mode. I even started Recovery Console and renamed that file but it simply hangs at a different driver (so I changed it back).

Anyway, I finally dug up a Knoppix Games (doh!) 3.7 live CD I had laying around and booted with that. Now I'm in alien territory, or nearly so. I just want to share his "c:" drive so I can browse it in My Network Places on my main machine and copy the files my friend wants to save.

The laptop is at 192.168.0.4 and I can ping it with my machine, so I believe the hardware is all fine. In fact, I can even go on the internet with the laptop so all is well that way. I just don't know how to do the whole sharing of folders/drives thing.

 

[Maetryx]

Well I read one guide that suggested I use a USB drive in the laptop and reboot with Knoppix. Then I could drag and drop files from hda1 to sda1. That sounds perfect... except my Knoppix Games 3.7 doesn't seem to have a file manager/browser. 🙁 . Anyone know a command line to open up a file manager? I prefer not to use a terminal with command line since I'm sure I'll miss something.

(and yes, I'm downloading a more recent Knoppix bootable DVD)

 

[Nothinman]

Every version of Knoppix that I've seen comes with KDE which includes Konqurer.

 

[Maetryx]

I'll look for that next. Thanks for responding; I really appreciate it. I managed to dredge up a long lost memory of command lines for *nix and used
cp -r "My Pictures" /mnt/sda1
which moved 1GB of files onto the USB drive. That was the critical files.

I'll try Konqueror if I need that functionality again. My next challenge is to find the Product Key. I wonder if Wine will correctly run a Product Key identifier utility.

 

[Nothinman]

WINE may run it, but WINE has it's own registry so you might not be able to get at the product key on the other volume.

 

[Maetryx]

Wine didn't run the program keyfinder.exe, or the latest beta. It appears that keyfinder.exe self extracts on a regular Windows execution to a temp location or something that isn't present or writeable or something in Knoppix. To Windows, it just appears to be an executable file and whatever extraction it does, the user is unaware. It just works. But I need a different solution in Knoppix. I'll keep looking.

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Every version of Knoppix that I've seen comes with KDE which includes Konqurer.

I don't know what's up with my 3.7 CD but I cannot find Konqueror in the programs menus, nor does Konqueror or konqueror work as commands in a terminal. Hmmmmm. Maybe I can download it onto my USB drive and install it.

Then again, I don't need that right now. I'll have Knoppix 5.1 downloaded by this evening sometime, and I really just need the Product Key off of this dastardly laptop.

 

[Maetryx]

After downloading several different Product Key finder utilities (one with a virus signature according to Avira) and trying to run them in emulation mode in Knoppix, I finally found the Product Key. It's on a sticker on the bottom of the laptop. 😱

 

[Maetryx]

In case anyone wonders what happened, I finally restored the laptop to functionality without resorting to a reinstall. I used Recovery Console to go into C:\windows\system32\config where I deleted:
sam
software
security
default
system

I replaced those files with original install versions of those files stored in a special folder called erepair. That made me boot up like magic, although nothing was what it used to be. No problem. I went into the folder called System Volume Information and dug up a recent restore point. I replaced those five files again in C:\windows\system32\config with restore point versions. The next time I booted everything was normal again.

I read these instructions on a tech website, but I forget which one. I'll dig it up if someone needs it.