[Gllug] OT - Booting XP to commandline

[Paul Cupis]

Dylan wrote:
> I'm doing some maintenance to a friend's Win-XP-Pro machine, and need to boot 
> to a DOS interface if possible. I remember being ablr to use a function key 
> at boot time, but for the life of me cannot figure out how to do it right 
> now.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222

> Any hints? Basically, I need to copy the Documents and Settings from the C 
> drive to a newly installed data drive to recover disk space and since Windows 
> acesses several of the relevant files it will not let me copy them ... Using 
> a Linux boot CD is not an option since all drives are formatted NTFS 
> unfortunately.

Modern Linux live CDs can read NTFS, some can write NTFS.
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