jrandom
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Posts: 1
Joined: Oct. 2003 |
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Posted: Oct. 29 2003,00:32 |
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I've tried to like DSL, I really have. But it just doesn't work for me. I've been trying to use it to rescue a significant amount of data off a crashed and unsuccessfully repaired Win 2000 workstation with NO success. I've booted up and have tried to mount the NTFS file system, but kept running into roadblocks, mainly around permissions, where I couldn't even read the drive, and couldn't even log in as root to change the file permisisons (really hated these games about the root password, spent 2 hours trying to guess it with no success) Since time was of the essence, and the data was critical, I had to spend the money for ERD Commander and managed to get the data off. If I could have mounted and at least read the file system, I could have saved a significant amount of money. But apparently you can't do this running from the live CD.
Until I can get some way to more easily get at least read-only access to NTFS partitions for file recovery, I am going to recommend that people spend the money to buy ERD Commander and not waste the time to get DSL working, because of the difficulties in getting root and changing the attributes.
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