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Re: Need a Live CD that can access NTFS hard drives
de Anonymous 04/12/2006 04:28
Terry
>> My computer's hard drive is formatted in NTFS. Of all of the Linux
>> distros that I've tried, Ubuntu is the only Live CD that has ever been
>> able to boot my computer.
> Why is that? What is so weird about your PC.
I don't know. Linux doesn't tell me what's wrong---it just stops.
>> But Ubuntu won't mount, read or access my NTFS hard drive.
>
> It should be able to. Most linux distros can read NTFS partitions. If
> the linux distro boots, and you're using IDE hard drives, it's pretty
> hard to believe current versions of linux distros can't read an NTFS
> partition.
They might be able to read NTFS drives---I don't know if they can
because they won't boot my computer to read the NTFS drive.
> Why you think it won't mount?
Because Ubuntu said that it couldn't mount the drive in a dialog box
that appeared wh3en I clicked on the drive's icon.
> How have you been mounting it?
I haven't mounted it. Windows does that for me. I assumed that Linux
would too, but it doesn't.
> What
> happens when you try?
Ubuntu never gave me any clues of help files to mount the drive. Just a
dialog box saying that Ubuntu couldn't do it.
> Have you asked about this in the ubuntu forum?
Nope. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. None of the Linux
distros (Live CD's or full installation OS Disks) have ever told me
what was wrong so I could fix it. I don't know enough about Linux to
troubleshoot installations so I have to go back to Windows.
>> I want a Live CD that can boot my machine, provide some kind of an
>> operating system, and allow me to access the NTFS hard drive.
>
> I do this all the time with System Rescue CD.
> http://www.sysresccd.org. This is a small linux recovery and
> maintenance CD, based on gentoo linux, which supports lots of
> hardware, so it's likely it will boot on your system. If not, they
> have a forum that will help.
Thanks for the tip. I'm downloading System Rescue CD right now as I
write.
>> -*- The OS used by the Live CD doesn't matter. It can be Linux,
>> Windows, BeOS...anything as long as it can mount, read and access an
>> NTFS hard drive.
>
> What do you mean by "access"?
Access---read the names of the files that are on the drive, delete them
if they are causing the emergency that forces me to boot my computer
with a Live CD, maybe be able to open generic filetypes like
.txt's...nothing fancy, just simple and basic access---at least read
the drive and tell me the folders and files that are found.
> I suggest you lurk in some linux newsgroups, or the forum for the
> linux distro you are trying to get working. They will be able to help
> more that ACF people, who aren't, in general, linux experts. :-)
Your suggestion is both reasonable and sound. The reason that I posted
in the ACF NG is because the OS that the CD uses to boot the machine is
not an issue, just as long as it will boot and access the NTFS hard
drive. In fact, since I've had such a difficult time with Linux, I'm
open to suggestions that are not from the Linux genre. I broadened the
question to "any freeware" that will boot and read NTFS, and posted in
the freeware NG rather than Linux, since I'm not limiting the search to
Linux---just limiting it to freeware.
Gotta run Terry, the download of System Rescue CD is done.
Thanks again!