Jeff Groves wrote:
I'm trying to delete malware files from a Windows XP machine by
booting from a Knoppix CD, then mounting the NTFS file system as RW,
and then tooling down to the directory where the file lives to delete it.
Problem is that no matter what I put in /etc/fstab, the file system is
still mounted read-only and I am not allowed to remove the file.
This is probably an easy fix, but neither my intuition or my STFW
abilities has come up with an answer.
I think due to some NTFS licensing restrictions Knoppix can only mount
it RO by default. I think you have to copy some .sys file from your
windows installation somewhere to get it mounted RW (sorry about the
lack of detail here). That being said everything I have seen about
writing to NTFS partitions from Linux warns that it is experimental and
you could render your NTFS partition unusable.
Robert
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