Other Help Topics :: Using DSL for emergency data recovery of XP files

See this thread for help on how to use DSL to access a MSWindows hard drive partition. Keep in mind that Windows NT/2000/XP partitions, called "NTFS" are READ-ONLY so you will need some kind of alternative storage location to stick your "rescued" files when you copy them from the hard drive. For example, a USB stick, a CD-R disk, a network share drive, a FAT/FAT32 partition, etc.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=2959;

Here is another live Linux distro that may be more geared for what you are looking for:

http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html

It is a Knoppix/DSL based distro. It has alot of cool recovery/troubleshooting tools AND full read-write support for NTFS-partitions (so they claim)

give it a try and let us all know how it worked out!

original here.