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Can I access a Windows 8 crashed partition from Ubuntu?

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I had installed Windows 2-3 days before.

On my laptop, there was only one drive. Because I wanted to partition it, I installed application called easeus partition master. But because my Windows 8 crashed and I do not have dvd with me, I just want to take a backup of one folder which is very important to me.

I was searching all over the Internet. I installed Ubuntu so that I could access that folder and take a backup.

Is there any was to access that folder for taking a backup?

I googled it and I got couple of results from here as well but with no avail.

Edit:

I do not have DVD from where I installed the Windows 8. So it means that I cannot repair it.

I have installed Ubuntu on another partition with the option Install Ubuntu along with Windows 8 yet I can not access the partition of Windows 8. The error is Can not mount the partition.

When I Googled it, I got this found this question and I tried for this answer.

But I had no luck with it as well.

I just want to copy a folder in C:/ drive where I installed Windows.

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answered 1 Year ago umplegitimat · Accepted Answer

This probably means you have put your Windows 8 to hibernate and are trying to mount it in Ubuntu, which gives an error message asking you to shut down windows or mount it as a read-only file-system. Since, your windows has crashed, it won't be possible to shut it down. To manually mount it as a read only file-system type the following on the terminal in ubuntu:
sudo mount -r <your windows partition on the device> <mount-path>
in your case, to find out the windows partition, if you don't know what it might be, type
sudo fdisk -l on the terminal. You can make out if you remember the size of the windows partition, it should be of type NTFS. If you have gparted installed in ubuntu, you also see the partitions as below:
gparted showing my partitions
And the mount path is usually /media/user where user is your user-name

For example, if you know your windows partition is on /dev/sda2 and want to mount it on /media/user, just type this on the terminal:

sudo mount -r /dev/sda2 /media/user.
This will mount the file system, then go to the folder where it got mounted, and then you can copy the folder you want to by cp -r <source> <destination>