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I'm not sure DSL can handle ntfs, even read it..

DSL will read ntfs without problems on my machines - I also managed to use ntfsprogs to re-size an ntfs partition with DSL, though I'm not sure I would recommend this...

Maybe it's a new ntfs format DSL's old ntfs driver can't read?

There's no problem reading NTFS with Linux. Linux has been able to read NTFS since kernel 2.2. There are at least two drivers that allow read-write access to NTFS partitions. NTFS3g works in userspace but not kernelspace. Captive NTFS is a wrapper that uses the Windows NTFS driver.

NTFS is a standard. There are no changes in NTFS between Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista; just as there are no changes in ext2 between Linux kernel versions.

I have an old NT workstation and I've never had any trouble accessing NT 4.x partitions under Linux since 2.2 was released. Dittos for any other Windows partitions -- FAT, NTFS in XP and Vista, etc. -- since then.

Actually there was a change between NT and 2000.. but that's not the point.
How can this guy access a drive with corrupted filesystem descriptor?

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