On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:45, you wrote: > I believe that some of you have used Knoppix to repair Win2k. > > The Microsoft Knowledge base (is that an oxymoron?) has a suggested > solution.... > > If your system fails to boot because the System hive is corrupt, it may be > possible to rename the System.alt file to System to recover Windows. This > file is located in the Systemroot\System32\Config folder. > > How does one use Knoppix to get more than just read rights to an NTFS > partition? What does the mount command with no options say about the ro/rw status of the partition? Have you tried re-mounting the partition read-write? mount -o remount,rw /dev/<ntfs_device> /mnt/<ntfs_mount_point>
man mount -- ( no thanks :-) for all the gore. Note that Linux writing to a ntfs partition is considered experimental! HTH > PS - for your amusement - the faulty PC was "built" yesterday for a guy > here nicknamed "Titanic". Guess why! Theres always one of them in any decent sized org. In a previous job I was frequently dealing with the wake of problems trailing behind a certain indiviual. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
