Hi, > I am interested in trying Linux, especially for recovery of data on NTFS formatted HDDs - WinXp seems to crash a lot > leaving often leaving my clients unable to recover data. I know this can be done in Linux as I have a boot CD from AntiVar > (a German Virus Cleaner) that will read such a partition - I just can't copy files with it or at least, I don't know how. What sort of boot disk do you have exactly? How comfortable are you with linux console tools? You could always make the hdd a secondary drive to another windows disk and copy the data across using your windows tools? That is if the crashing is due to XP and not dodgy hardware. If you are already comfortable with windows tools, and not so much with linux tools, and it is clients data, I would suggest to use windows option and learn kewl linux tools on your own disks first ;)
> So is there such a boot disk or can one be made, how? There are several decent boot disks available, a good one is at: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Regards Pia Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
