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To: Elsewhere who wrote (39429)	2/14/2004 5:14:26 AM
From: Doug Soon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Hi Jochen, Thanks for the reply. I feel like I just discovered something cool. I followed your suggestions and they worked great. Why the USB memory key is defaulted as read-only is a mystery. Go figure. I really needed to salvage my laptop files from a crashed Windows XP using NTFS so before I got your reply we were experimenting. We did a lot of tinkering but eventually we found a way to rescue the files. We booted the Linux CD and luckily, could see the files on the XP (NTFS)hard drive. The laptop (now running Linux)ran OK on the Internet, but would not go on the LAN with an error message about the "Lisa daemon" or something so would not transfer files to another PC. Finally we got the files transferred using FTP from the command line. The files were sent to a server we use as an FTP server. I think there may be a FTP GUI client somewhere in Knoppix but could not find it. Anyways, to sum up, the Linux CD is a great tool to rescue files from damaged XP volumes particularly in a laptop where you can't use a second hard drive. I can't believe Microsoft doesn't have something to do the job. Thanks for letting us know about this. Any more tips?