[Shaitan00]

I have some files and folders on a drive (OS) which I want to write to a text file (long story short, drive it dying, some files I could not backup because copy failed, want to generate a list of them all).

If this was Windows I would run:
DIR /S > M:\File.txt
This would create a text file called File.txt on the M:\ drive which contained a list of all the files & folders ...

Now, because the drive was dying I am using Ubuntu LiveCD (Linux) to backup my files ... now the question is how can I accomplish the same thing in Ubuntu?

Any advice, help, information would be much appreciated.
Thanks,

[fishsponge]

to generate a list of files in a given directory, you could run a command like this:

find /dir/ -type f > /tmp/listOfFiles.txt

Obviously, you'll need to change /dir/ for the correct path and you might want to output the list of files to somewhere other than /tmp/listOfFiles.txt, but the command above will generate a list of filenames with their paths.

Hope this helps!