witblits1970,
You can boot with the Live DVD, then mount the existing Ultimate Edition or Ubuntu partition so you may access it. To do this you will need to create a "mount point" in either
/mnt or the
/media directory from a Terminal screen, with this command:
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mkdir /media/ue-root
OR
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mkdir /mnt/ue-root
- NOTE: You may call the directory whatever you wish, I just used "ue-root" as an example, I'd probably use something like "ue-home" for my
/home directory of Ultimate Edition (or whatever OS you're trying to recover or backup). I would assume that if you cannot repair the current installation that you want at least to get everything from your
/home directory/partition saved to someplace safe and accessible to Ultimate Edition when it is re-installed or repaired.
You will have to determine the actual Device name for the disk/partitions of your current Ultimate Edition install - I usually use
System>Administration>GParted to find this information. It should be in the form of something like this:
sda1 for the root partition and possibly
sda2 for the home partition - if it is on the 1st drive in your system, or
sdb2 if on the 2nd drive in your system, etc.... Once you have this information, and have created a directory to serve as the "mount point", then you can mount the partition with the following command:
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sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/ue-home
(or whatever you called the directory you created for this purpose).
This will mount the partition so you may
cd to the directory/mount-point and manipulate the files from there. You might want to just copy the entire partition or directory structure to another drive which you can access, such as the MS disk you referred to in your post. You may also have to mount the MS drive if it is not already mounted, or if you can already "see" that MS drive, and have permissions to
Write to it, just use your GUI File Browser to copy and paste the directory of your Ultimate Edition installation that you mounted to a new directory on the MS drive.
This is not an uncommon task, and this a good procedure to know how to accomplish. As Linux does not automatically Mount drives it does not "know about", this is often the method for accessing drives or partitions for recovery purposes.
Please let us know if this info was helpful and if you need further assistance or guidance.