Quote Originally Posted by coindood
On the live cd, go to the K menu, Knoppix, then Utilities. In the final menu is the Captive NTFS program, which after configuration lets you write to and modify NTFS partitions. Just follow the setup procedure, then mount the harddrive, and copy the file! Have Fun!
Thanks for the suggestion but the Captive NTFS procedure just froze my machine I re-tried with showing it a fresh ntfs.sys file on the floppy, rather than try and load the existing dodgy hard drive verson but no. Looks like I'm hosed.