joeypesci Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 One of my trusty Buffalo NAS drives died the other day Sad I say trusty but their fans have always be notorious for not spinning. I think that's what happened. The fan hadn't been spinning for a while but never fing e-mailed me the issue, even though I have them setup to e-mail me every day. So I've removed the drive and it appears fine. Loaded up VMWare Workstation 7 and slapped Ubuntu on it. Plugged in the drive to a USB and can see it in ubuntu. Currently copying the files to the Ubuntu desktop. Now with VMWare Workstation 7 I can copy from my main Windows 7 machine to any Windows VM desktop or BackTrack 4 and all copies over fine. Think I can copy back the other way as well. However, how would I get the files off this Ubuntu desktop as it seems to not work with Ubuntu. I can't seem to copy directly over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 One of my trusty Buffalo NAS drives died the other day Sad I say trusty but their fans have always be notorious for not spinning. I think that's what happened. The fan hadn't been spinning for a while but never fing e-mailed me the issue, even though I have them setup to e-mail me every day. So I've removed the drive and it appears fine. Loaded up VMWare Workstation 7 and slapped Ubuntu on it. Plugged in the drive to a USB and can see it in ubuntu. Currently copying the files to the Ubuntu desktop. Now with VMWare Workstation 7 I can copy from my main Windows 7 machine to any Windows VM desktop or BackTrack 4 and all copies over fine. Think I can copy back the other way as well. However, how would I get the files off this Ubuntu desktop as it seems to not work with Ubuntu. I can't seem to copy directly over. I may be confused on what you are trying to do here. But why not boot from a live distro of Ubuntu or BackTrack (my personal fav) and copy the files directly from the USB drive to your NTFS volume? I see all these virtual machine copying you are doing as not needed. I have a problem because I hate VM Ware, VirtualBox does not allow drag and drop copy like that from Guest to Host. So I have an FTP setup on my PC and transfer files that way. I also use the FTP for saving or getting files when I'm not home. FileZilla Server Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypesci Posted June 5, 2010 Author Share Posted June 5, 2010 Didn't think of that. Could give it a try. I love VMware and hate Linux so don't know it well enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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