User Feedback :: Damn impressed!

The INSERT project is a rescue livecd that is based on a stripped down knoppix like DSL. It exists for the expressed purpose of resucing computers and has a NTFS write program (called captive NTFS).

My advice is to give the Ultimate Boot CD With INSERT a try.

This CD includes a customized INSERT that includes antivirus program and a better Captive-NTFS script.

I use DSL with the samba.dsl hotloaded to CDROM..

I then mount the NTFS drive, and then use emelfm run as root to mount a windows share on one of my network drives...then just literally copy the entire hda1 or whatever to the samba/windows share

The M$ box running the windows share doesnt even know the difference..then after I know all the data is backed up (and scanned by antivirus on the M$ machine w/ the active resident shield or on-access scan (yes I run 2 antivirus on my M$ machines)) and kapow...all data recovery!

But the UBCD is another one of my system recovery tools (its a freeking mazing) in what it can do!

Brian
AwPhuch

As complete and diversified as DSL is and as talented and persistent as its contributors are, I find it hard to believe that read/write to NTFS isn't already incorporated as a core function or failing that, that it doesn't exist as a readily available easy to install extension. This is not a complaint or a criticism, just an observation from someone who made a DSL flash drive specifically to do minor M$ repairs to unbootable laptops without floppies or CDROMs (I know there are other solutions, DSL is one that I wanted). I'm not convinced yet that I can't do this with what's currently available, but it's much more difficult than I had imagined to perform this single task. I would happily devote the time and energy to solving this need if I had the requisite skills, but sadly I do not. So for now, DSL remains more of a toy than a tool for me, a wonderful, amazing one at that.

What would it take to get a NTFS.dsl compiled or built for DSL?

How safe do you feel trying to modify a NTFS type partition?

Brian
AwPhuch

original here.