How to write a data CD

**aspen** · 07-02-2003, 03:02 AM

My computer went haywire, and I cannot access windows. The only reason I know that my data is still on the disk is because I was able to access it when I loaded KNOPPIX. I was wondering if I could write the data from my hardrive (NTFS format) to CD. If anyone has any ideas it would be of great help.

Thanks.
-Mike

**fingers99** · 07-02-2003, 03:30 AM

I can't see why not, (I'm asuming that you have a CD drive and a CDR drive) although I'm not entirely sure how Linux sees NTFS permissions. Still, it's worth a dollar to find out!

I'd use k3b, make sure you have joliet extensions as well as rock ridge and concentrate on data files. You might like to enable long filenames.

**aspen** · 07-02-2003, 03:39 AM

I've got to drives on the computer. One of them is CDR drive.

I haven't tried k3b yet, but when trying other CD writing software, the main problem I had was having enough space on the drive to handle the data that was going to be written. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to work around that issue.

In the meanwhile I will give k3b a try.