accessing a Win10 HDD contents via a linux distro

[Throbbing Angel]

Oi Oi - we're trying to get anything useful (photos mainly) off a deceased relatives Win10 PC that is password protected.

What's the method du jour these days? In the past I would have trawled distrowatch for something that I could boot from a CD and access the photos and docs folders that way.

I no longer have a machine that can play CDs never mind burn one.

What's the 'recovery' go to software these days?

 

[souljacker]

Oi Oi - we're trying to get anything useful (photos mainly) off a deceased relatives Win10 PC that is password protected.

What's the method du jour these days? In the past I would have trawled distrowatch for something that I could boot from a CD and access the photos and docs folders that way.

I no longer have a machine that can play CDs never mind burn one.

What's the 'recovery' go to software these days?

Get a linux distro and boot from usb. Anything will do but I like Mint.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Get a linux distro and boot from usb. Anything will do but I like Mint.

Yeah? I don't need a recovery or data interrogation distro?

Just mount the drive can I?

 

[souljacker]

Yeah? I don't need a recovery or data interrogation distro?

Just mount the drive can I?

Yup.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Yup.

Cheers

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Oi Oi - is there any way I can make a Windows bootable USB stick from an M1 Mac?
souljacker
We haven't found my old CDs or any USB sticks with Linux live distros on them - they have probably been binned/reused.

 

[souljacker]

Oi Oi - is there any way I can make a Windows bootable USB stick from an M1 Mac?
souljacker
We haven't found my old CDs or any USB sticks with Linux live distros on them - they have probably been binned/reused.

balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives will do it

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Edit. Never mind.