How to access hard drive files from liveCD?

I don't know what files or file types are there on the hard drive nor do I know the file system in which the hard disk is written on. I am not able to view it in the home folder after booting from the liveCD.

2 Answers

When running a live session, you cannot access a computer's hard drive via /home directory or Home folder.

You do need to identify and click on the partition's label or name in the side pane of Nautilus to mount it, that is if you are running Ubuntu with GNOME desktop.

For KDE's Dolphin:

Open GUI application Disks, and find the drive you want to mount from the pane on the left. Within that drive, find the partition you want to mount using the drive's partition diagram.

When you click on the partition, the information beneath the partition diagram will show the drive's device identifier, in a line like:

Device: /dev/sd??

Replacing the question marks above with your device identifier, use command line 'mount' to mount the partition:

TODO

For an encrypted partition, see this answer to "Mount encrypted volumes from command line?"