Re: Linux and NTFS

[Timothy Ball <timball @ tux . org>]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:40:42AM -0400, Tim Bogart wrote:
> I have a hard drive out of a windozeNoT box that contains both a fat and
> ntfs partition.  There are some files on the ntfs side that need to be
> recovered.  The fat partition has been reformated with an image of
> windozeNoT which when the image was done, did not contain any information at
> all about ntfs.  The machine thus sees the ntfs partition as "free space".
> Is there a way I can put this drive on my linux box and mount the ntfs
> partition on this drive, and extract the needed files?

You should just have to compile the ntfs module in yr kernel. (first you
have the check the box for use experimental code, then in the
filesystems dialog enable NTFS *READ*. Don't even try the write support,
it loses... badly.

--timball

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