NTFS Write: Safe to use 3.4/2.6?

**David Ormsby-Gore** · 05-22-2004, 02:53 PM

Linux Defender Live! CD supplements Knoppix 3.4 so that it will safely write to NTFS. Will a barefoot Knoppix 3.4 /2.6 safely write to NTFS?

**koma** · 05-23-2004, 11:17 AM

I've tried doing this.. I set my ntfs partition so that I could write to it.. I tried it and found that I had no joy.. Problem is.. now.. I can no longer view this partition from windows.. Works fine inside knoppix but windows now see's it as an unknown file type..

any suggestions on how I can convert the drive back to ntfs without removing the content?

thanks in advance.. and good luck to those brave enough to try this..

**k-user** · 05-23-2004, 07:20 PM

There is one way that I can think of, but not being an expert in this field, it may not be ideal.

If possible, you could create a new partition (FAT32?) and copy all of the data to it, and then recreate the original partition using Windows NT/2k/XP setup. Although this would mean loss of applications and user settings, all data would be kept. I think that the command is cfdisk.

HTH,

Paul.