[TriLUG] NT 4.0 backup, knoppix, other ideas?

[Jason Tower]

NTFS read-only is generally workable, which is all you need in this case.  i'd 
boot a knoppix CD, mount the NTFS partitions ro, and scp the data to a safe 
place.

jason

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 20:24, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> A good friend has a NT 4.0 machine in bad shape.  It won't load drivers and
> constantly complains about "the security subsystem" not starting.  I've
> tried to load LAN drivers for a 3Com PCMCIA card but it doesn't work -
> neither does loading drivers for a 802.11b card from Lucent.  Reloading the
> OS from an old NT 4.0 CD doesn't work either (more blah blah about the
> "security subsystem").
>
> The problem here is he has about 650 megs of data from his MBA program he
> would like to have saved.  Without being able to load any drivers for
> network cards I'm outta luck with a network backup.
>
> Is there any way to boot Linux from a CD with network drivers and get to
> the data on a NT partition?  I think the partition is NTFS, but I'm not
> sure.  This is the only way I can think to get the data from this machine
> without being able to load drivers and without a CD-RW.
>
> Has anyone tried booting a Linux distro and getting to NT data?  Is this
> even possible?  Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Greg
>
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