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To: Elsewhere who wrote (39157)2/13/2004 1:35:26 PM
From: Doug Soon  Read Replies (1) of 110626
 
Hi Jochen,

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded and burned a Knoppix bootable CD. The idea was to troubleshoot a laptop hard drive that seems to have died that runs Windows XP with NTFS. It won't do a Windows XP repair and I don't want to re-partition and format as there are valuable files on this hard drive. I can't add a second hard drive and a laptop hard drive can't be added to my desktop IDE cable.

So, the Linux CD seems like a good recovery tool.

I tried it out on my desktop first, using a USB memory key to test by recovering files from the hard drive and writing to the memory key. I can see all the hard drive files and the memory key as well. However, I cannot "copy" and "paste" them to the memory key on a perfectly running desktop also running Windows XP and having NTFS partitions.

Do you know if I need special drivers for this purpose? TIA
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