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Old 2005-07-12, 02:18 PM
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Re: Help w/external harddrive crash?

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Originally Posted by Ted
Beleaguered - are you saying Knoppix will be able to read a Windows file table or are you suggesting it for another purpose? I've heard very good things about Knoppix, but thought it was Linux only. If it'll read Windows, I'll be adding it to my repertoire of useful stuff. I've been putting off burning it because I don't do Linux yet. One day I'll see the light, though.

Thanks.
Linux has long had support for reading & writing fat/fat32 formatted drives and more recently there is read only support for ntfs formatted drives. And, Knoppix is Linux, it's just a distribution that boots from CD. It's great tool for emergencies and it's an easy start to Linux for n00bs.
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