• 1) Awful choice for a subject of a post in a forum already called MS Windows & New to Linux. See my answer #7.

    2) Knoppix can often read NTFS partitions when Windows can't. But it should be obvious that certain bad things that can happen to the partition or the disk might destroy it enough that even Knoppix can't read it. Knoppix can not be used to write to a NTFS partition though. See my generic answer #5.