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nocturn
April 7th, 2006, 07:59 AM
I'm trying to repair a windows installation of a friend. I got a long way into repairing it, but in order to move on now I need to copy some files to the hard drive (NTFS) that are on my USB stick.

So, this leaves me looking for a LiveCD with NTFS write support. I tried Dapper FL5 and Knoppix, but no luck.

Does anyone know such a distro?
Sutekh
April 7th, 2006, 08:06 AM
I've only had a brief look at this

http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/presscenter.php?menu_id=25&n_id=58
nocturn
April 7th, 2006, 08:20 AM
This one looks nice: http://trinityhome.org

Will try it tonight.
codejunkie
April 7th, 2006, 08:29 AM
the LinuxDefender live cd has NTFS write support http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/presscenter.php?menu_id=25&n_id=58
nocturn
April 7th, 2006, 08:41 AM
Cool, thank you. Now I have at least 2 options
ice60
April 7th, 2006, 01:30 PM
UBCD4WIN which is based on BartPE, and BartPE are two windows live cds. generally you need a windows cd to compile them, but i downloaded a pre-compiled BartPE cd the other day :D

you should be able to use the recovery console though instead of all these livecds.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
nocturn
April 7th, 2006, 01:32 PM
you should be able to use the recovery console though instead of all these livecds.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

I used the recovery console (if you can even call it that). But it is so limited...

It doesn't give me access to my USB drive, which has some files on it which I need to copy to the HD before I can get windows to boot.
ice60
April 7th, 2006, 01:40 PM
I used the recovery console (if you can even call it that). But it is so limited...

It doesn't give me access to my USB drive, which has some files on it which I need to copy to the HD before I can get windows to boot.
yes, it's rubbish :rolleyes: but, i thought you'd be able to access a USB drive, maybe not, sorry. :)
nocturn
April 7th, 2006, 01:49 PM
yes, it's rubbish :rolleyes: but, i thought you'd be able to access a USB drive, maybe not, sorry. :)

Thanks for your suggestions though, I'll check out the Linux livecd's first (as I'm more comfortable with it).

I thought the recovery console would actually include some tools to fix errors... but it's just a glorified version of DOS 6.
So, no USB and no network :-(

It's beyond me how anyone finds this acceptable for such an expensive piece of software.