Quote Originally Posted by Pollux
.... Due to the lack of another PC my resources to save the existing data on that drive and then reformat it are limited. I must look for some help here....
One PC with NTFS only and no one else to talk to makes it harder. You might consider adding a hard drive with one of the FAT file systems on it. Alternately, if you have a CD writer on that system you could write the data to CD's. Here are the issues there: Unless you have at least 3/4 gig of memory on the computer and uset the option "toram", then the Knoppix CD that you're running from has to stay in the drive it booted from, so with Knoppix you would need 2 drives or enough memory to use the toram option. There are other ways though. I made a bootable CD with another Linux distro called "Damn Small Linux" on it in the first session and left the CD open for writing. I used Damn Small Linus (only 50 meg in size) to write a second session on the CD, and was able to use the remaining 650 megs to save files. The CD no longer will boot, but has the files on it.

I'm also told that DSL has a toram feature, so you should be able to use that in most systems to load all of DSL into ram, then you should be able to remove the CD, put in a blank, and write 700 megs of data. I haven't done this yet, so it's all theory, but I see no reason why it should not work.