Quote Originally Posted by Davidsa
I want to recover some data from a corrupted NTFS partition which has Windows XP Pro (among other things) installed on it.

Knoppix/Konquerer "sees" only a FAT (plain FAT, not FAT32) partition on the disk which I imagine is the XP recovery consol. I do not need to preserve this partition or the files in it.

How do I make Knoppix "see" the NTFS partition?

I realize Knoppix won't write to an NTFS partition. I have another, working hard disk formatted FAT32 with enough space to take the data I need to recover.

Many thanks in advance for suggestions. I have no previous experience of Linux/Knoppix.

David
The following thread:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...887&highlight=
chronicles my newbie journey through a very similar problem about a year ago, when my Windows would not boot due to a motherboard problem, and I had to back up an NTFS drive onto a second HD before returning the computer for warranty service. Knoppix 3.2 saved me. Back then, K3B did not support my DVD+R/RW drive, and I needed to save some video files which were too large to fit on a CD. If you have the patience to read through it, it might be of help. I will tell you that I've never heard this solution suggested anywhere else, and the copy process took a surprising amount of time to complete.

Good luck,

JD