On Dec 10, 2005, at 9:04 pm, Nick Smith wrote:
... i know that doesnt answer your knoppix question but i deal with that crap everyday and i have tried using knoppix a few times and it had problems with the ntfs partitions. where would you put the data once you got it? its booted off the cd, so even if it was a burner how would you burn something when the drive is being used? a flash drive possibly. but probably the easiest way to get that data (sorry to say) is get winders functioning again, get your data, and then blow it away.
That's funny - I deal with Windows problems all day & everyday & I prefer Knoppix for getting data off failed Windows installations.
I've never experienced any problems reading from NTFS partitions and prefer to use that than having to worry about a Windows install forgetting to copy "hidden" files (such as Outlook Application Data or Outlook Distress Identities) or something. I have confidence that if I do `cp -rvf * /to/somewhere/` then every file will be copied.
I use a portable USB hard-drive which Knoppix recognises & makes a /mnt/uba1 (or /mnt/sda1 if I connect it with firewire) entry for and just boot with `knoppix 2`.
It's interesting how different people do the same thing different ways, Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
