Quote Originally Posted by PattiMichell
It seems that ntfs works OK on 3.9 - is that true?
Good luck resolving your boot problem. There are some people here that know the ins and outs of the various boot loaders very well, some may be able to make sense of your problem. You may get better feedback in the Hardware and Booting forum than in the Laptop forum. I'll move this thread there if you indicate that is desired. I doubt that this problem would be unique to laptops.

As to ntfs working in 3.9, I'm assuming that you mean writing to ntfs (as Knoppix could always read from NTFS), and if so the answer is NO. Nore is 4.02 safe. There are reports the ntfs writing works "in a limited capacity" (whatever that means) starting in 5.0.1, but I'm not convinced and not ready to risk my partitions and all of their data to test this, particularly when corruption may not always be immidately evident. And I'm not sure ntfs writing is safe even for Windows, I have multiple ntfs drives that Windows can no longer open and Knoppix can't recover the files from (never written to by Knoppix). And time spent here has convinced me that one of the biggest things that drives people to Linux and Knoppix is ntfs file recovery. So if Windows can't write to them safely, why should I expect Knoppix to be able to do so? And how would I know if problems seen after writing to a ntfs partition with Knoppix (perhaps long after) were due to Knoppix or just another case of the Microsoft "good enough for our users" philosphy?Some others have expressed that they can make 5.x versions write to ntfs, so it's a personal choice there.