[SLUG] Recovering NTFS files with live CDs

[Paul Teasdale]

On Saturday 23 Oct 2004 23:29, Al Girling wrote:
> We're having a bit of a problem here at the moment.  Ali's XP machine
> is completely FUBAR.  There are files on the HD which we would very
> much like to save though.

I know this is not a Windows mailing list but how FUBAR is Ali's PC? It 
may be possible to boot into safe mode or a command-line recovery 
console and take some action? It may also be possible to re-install XP 
without killing all your current files and settings, in essence, just 
refreshing the OS. It may also be possible to boot the XP disk into a 
recovery console. 

These actions of course depend on the state of the system and what Ali 
has already tried to recover the system. These days PC's with XP 
installed tend to only come with recovery disks that put the system 
back to its delivered state or worse still no disks at all.

Assuming Ali has not tried any these things then I will be happy to 
advise should you wish.

> 'System is read only'.

Jamie is right when he says the floppy will probably be (but not 
necessarily) FAT formatted. If you're not sure then I think you can use 
the fdformat command under Linux to make a DOS (FAT) formatted disk. 

> Or because writing to NTFS file system is still experimental and not 
> supported. 

Copying files from your XP NTFS file system you should only need read 
access (but obviously write access to your floppy disk or whereever the 
file are being copied to). Not trying to be funny or anything but is 
the floppy disk write-protected?

Regards,

Paul

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