Quote Originally Posted by mohater
friend of mine referred me to knoppix - my wonderful xp OS died on me and i can't recover it. NTFS partition so i can't recover my files from the documents and settings folder
Just trien to copy them someplace else - is that even possible on knoppix - from the posts i've seen it seems the answer is no, but i thought i'd ask
Yes, it is possible and not that hard. I would not try WRITING to you NTFS partition, but you do have some other options. Knoppix will automatically detect your Windows partition and put an icon for it on your desktop (most likely it will be hda1). Click on that icon to mount and view your drive. After doing this, you should have access to your data. Now how do you get your data off of it?

If you have a second hard drive you can just drag and drop your files over there (providing it's not NTFS). If you have a second drive, an icon it will also be on your desktop. Click on it to mount the drive, then go back and right click on the same icon to enable write permissions. Then you can just drag and drop the files from on drive to another.

If you don't have a second hard drive but have a usb key drive or a usb hard drive, you should see an icon for on your desktop after booting (providing you had it plugged in when you booted up). It will probably be labeled something like sda1. Follow the proceedure above to mount and make the drive writeable, then you can just drag and drop your files.

If neither of those two options will work for you, you can copy the files over a network. Check out the Samba howto

Finally, if you have a cd burner on the machine or can plug in an external usb writer, you can use Knoppix to burn the files onto a cd.

How's that for rescue options