I agree with using another distro for what you are trying to do. I use Clonezilla to do imaging recovery and backups - http://clonezilla.org, I have yet to come across a machine that won't boot with this. I'm guessing with this Ubuntu live cd talk you want a GUI in Linux, which could be a problem on an older system. Mounting an NTFS partition and copying files does not take much command line to accomplish- if you do in fact need any help with this let me or the mailing list know. Good luck, Jeremy MountainJohnson jeremy at jskier.com On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > > Do you have at least 512 MB of RAM? Given that the computer came with Windows 2000, I think there's a good chance that it doesn't, in which case it has no business running Ubuntu. In my opinion, Ubuntu is bloatware. It has its merits, but running on very old computers is not one of them. Ubuntu is roughly as resource-hungry as Windows XP. > > Try a lighter distro for rescuing files, such as Puppy Linux, antiX Linux, or Damn Small Linux. I know for a fact that Puppy Linux can recognize Windows files. > > If booting from a live CD doesn't work, then try booting from a USB drive instead. > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:33:00 -0500 (CDT) > Thomas Rieff <trieff at greencaremankato.com> wrote: > > > TCLUG, > > I have a win 2000 pc in our office that seems to have issues. > > So no problem, I will just backup the files and reload with xp. > > Well it is currently very flakey with the current os, so I dropped a ubuntu 9.04, 9.1, 10.04 live cds in and thought I would save the files that way. Ubuntu live cd won't load. I have tried many different things, including the video card corrections, but it stops at "checking 'hlt' instruction..." > > Maybe the hard drive is bad, but it should load a live cd??? > > Maybe the motherboard or cpu is bad, how do I tell or test??? > > Any thoughts??? > > Tom > > > > Thomas Rieff > > GreenCare > > 1717 3rd Avenue > > Mankato, MN 56001 > > (507) 344-8314 Office > > (507) 344-8316 Fax > > (507) 381-0660 Cell > > > > > > > -- > Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list