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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
