Exploring Hard Drive Files

[J41697]

/dev/sda3: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="58124789-a984-4e2c-8d5d-fadf11a455c8"

[gerald_clark]

If that is the only partition defined, you have no NTFS filesystem, and no files.

[J41697]

When I try to use the file recovery built into the BIOS I can see and select all of my files. The problem there is that when I try to recover them it has an error every time.

[gerald_clark]

File recovery in the BIOS? What are you talking about?

[coreplayer2]

Ouch,  a Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR) is usually small and does not contain any user data.

[J41697]

Or CMOS. I'm not sure. Just the built in file recovery. And there are more partition, but they all seem to say about the same thing.

[gerald_clark]

I can't help you if you hide needed troubleshooting data.
I asked a specific question and expect an accurate answer.

[J41697]

/dev/sda4: UUID="E85E8AB95E8A8054" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="d2dfb1e0-b)*e-42d*-99f-db4d48634bfc"

[gerald_clark]

mount /mnt/sda4
ls /dev/sda4

[J41697]

Permission denied when I try /mnt. su requires a password.

[gerald_clark]

sudo mount /mnt/sda4
ls /mnt/sda4

[J41697]

Ahhhh. I think we're on the right track now. It came up with a list of what looks like the right file folders. Things like $Reclycle.Bin/ , Program Files/ , Users/. Tips on what to do from here?

[gerald_clark]

Copy the files to another dirve.
For the third time, I recommend mc.
If you can't pick it up from here, I recommend you use another user friendly live DVD.

[J41697]

The thing is I need a live DVD that runs on RAM. I will try to see what I can do from here.

[gerald_clark]

No, you do not.