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

[Joshua Bedick]

I think the others were correct in suggesting Knoppix, but in case that
doesn't work a 1 GB hard drive should do the trick.  Just put NT or
something on it.  Or G4L (?Ghost for Linux?).

Joshua

----- Original Message -----
From: <gregbrown at mindspring.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] NT 4.0 backup, knoppix, other ideas?


> 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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