To recover data from PC doesnt turn on, with live usb

[yunusilk]

Hello. My Ubuntu 22-04 PC stucked at the begining screen. l want to back up my private files from PC to external hard disk. lf l use a live USB, can l see and transfer my files from PC to hard disk?

[Frogs Hair]

Support request, moved to General Help.

[SeijiSensei]

Yes, though you'll have to mount the devices manually. Plug in the USB device, then boot from the installation medium and choose "Try Ubuntu." You can use

sudo fdisk -l

to list all the storage devices and any partitions. Find the partition with the data you want to save, let's call it /dev/sda1 for an example, then mount that partition into the fiie system with

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

Now use the same process to find the identifier for the partition on the USB drive to which you want to copy data. Mount it to the empty "/opt" directory with

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /opt

Now you can copy files from /mnt to /opt. The default "ubuntu" user has root privileges so you shouldn't run into any rights problems.

[yunusilk]

Thank you very much.