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

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Tue Jun 3 21:19:25 EDT 2003


will g4l let you look inside an image and extract files?  i'm not even
gonna suggest ghosting an image to a server using a network boot
floppy...

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:12, Joshua Bedick wrote:
> 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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