[Techtalk] NTFS Linux rescue disk?

[mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org]

Chris, that so did it -

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I've been obsessed with this for over 24 
hours now, and got very close on my own, but never there, until I got back 
to a computer I could log into.  I saw your note, it rang a litlte bell 
and there in the mess of cds and floppies left behind by our irresponsible 
erstwhile and now gone support tech, there was Bart.  There was also an XP 
startup disk, but I could not get it to give me the c: drive directories.

What I did was really silly and the last thing I wanted was these 
..people.. to log that.  I'd renamed NTDIRECT.com, thinking it was some 
sort of spyware, only to find that Windoze didn't just complain, it got 
apoplectic.  Bart just came through like a champ and I was able to rename 
NTDIRECT back to itself, I have my system back and no one here's the wiser 
- it was just a "crash" I was able to fix.

This has been a very frustrating 24 hours, but now that it's over and 
everything looks to be okay, it's amazing what I've learned through this. 
I can now get into NT boxes, thanks to the Linux Rescue CD's NTFS password 
resetter and of course Bart, I have the genuine Gentoo based linux dual 
booter that I've always wanted for my laptop and I even found a plug-in a 
drive for the lappie.

Best of all, I only had to confess to a tolerant group of genuinely smart 
folks what I'd been dumb enough to do, rather than - well, them here.

This list is a godsend - thanks to all of you.

Kathleen


On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Chris Booth wrote:

> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:08:54 +0000
> From: Chris Booth <chris at gn.apc.org>
> To: mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org, Techtalk <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] NTFS Linux rescue disk?
> 
> 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
>
>