Bootable CD w/ NTFS write support

Mr Grinch · 2005-01-28T18:42:17

Being a computer nerd, I got myself volunteered to fix a friend of a friend's computer. His harddrive seems to be screwed up, but he has a whole extra 40 gig harddrive just in case this happens. I thought it'd be easy: just boot into knoppix, back everything up, reinstall, good to go. I even downloaded the standalone XP service pack 2 installer and firefox to install before reconnecting to the net. I failed to realize that his backup drive is a NTFS partition and knoppix doesn't seem to support writing to NTFS drives (or at least I can't make it). Do any of you guys have experience with a bootable linux cd that offers NTFS write support? I found INSERT but don't know anything about it. Have any of you used it before? Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

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Started by Mr Grinch January 16, 2005 12:47 AM

10 comments, last by wizards 20 years ago

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January 28, 2005 06:42 PM

Had something similar before hand.

I used a Ubuntu Live CD and all i needed to do is mount his NTFS partition read-only and copy the files over network to my server with scp.

That is about it really.

The problem he had was with dynamic windows (stupid) partition. In the end, after backing everything up I managed to recreate the partition on the drive and the all his files were back on the drive.

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