[Techtalk] NTFS Linux rescue disk?

[Chris Booth]

Hi Kathleen,

You might want to check out the BartPE disk (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/). 
It's something similar to Knoppix and the other Linux live CDs, expect that 
it boots to a cut down version of *Windows*. That includes the native 
Microsoft NTFS drivers, so you'll have no problems with read and write access.

You will need to borrow a Windows CD from somewhere though - what's on the 
site is a tool to build the disk, rather than pre-built disk images (since 
of course it's not allowed to redistribute the Windows files themselves). 
You can customise the disk with all sorts of plug-in tools depending on the 
particular nature of your problem.

Hope this helps, and good luck with it all,

Chris

At 04:24 25/01/2006, mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

>Hello, all,
>
>Another question about NTFS here, from a slightly more urgent perspective 
>- for the first time in a year, I did something to my laptop that will not 
>let me get to a drive and it will not boot.  I thought of using Knoppix, 
>but the site says NTFS compatability is *coming*, which I think means it's 
>not here.
>
>Any recommendations on a Linux distro that can be used as rescue disk for 
>Windows XP on a laptop?  I'd just use the install cds, only ours are set 
>up by a central org. that won't release them, isn't equiped to handle 
>questions beyond the most basic desktop support and logs, usually 
>inaccurately, every contact with the "support" desk, for those technical 
>people like myself outside the core IS group.  I've been through that "the 
>guys trade info with each other, but we log as 'help' every contact with a 
>female as help we gave the poor thing" and am not about to do it here.
>
>(I even had one incident logged as help given me where I told the official 
>pc support guy how to eliminate an invalid automatic a drive seek).
>
>Sorry about the griping - it's late and I'm frustrated at this setup here. 
>Any help would be appreciated, but not expected, given that this is 
>basically a Windows question, albeit with a linux twist.
>
>Oh, and I lose computer accerss at 12 midnight (US EST) and would have to 
>check answers the next day after that.
>
>Thanks in advance -
>
>Kathleen
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