Boot disk with utilities

[Guest]

I had to help out a friend the other day. I had to format his C:
partition and restore an image. In spite of my earnest advice he and
his family had dropped all sorts of word documents on to the desktop
which were deleted.

In the old days I would have first booted up to a floppy with some
small utility (or just the MSDOS command line) and retrieved a few
files before formatting. Is there anything these days that could do
that sort of job?

Colin

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

I had to help out a friend the other day. I had to format his C:
partition and restore an image. In spite of my earnest advice he and
his family had dropped all sorts of word documents on to the desktop
which were deleted.

In the old days I would have first booted up to a floppy with some
small utility (or just the MSDOS command line) and retrieved a few
files before formatting. Is there anything these days that could do
that sort of job?

Colin

Knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/

Just make sure you have your USB stick or external HDD plugged in and
installed before you boot the CD.

 

[DatabaseBen]

microsoft.com has
free downloads for boot up
cd's or for making boot
up floppies....

 

[Colin Bearfield]

Knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/

Just make sure you have your USB stick or external HDD plugged in and
installed before you boot the CD.

Hello Knoppix

I recognised your Linux association immediately when I visited your
web site. I have a windows utility to do the file manipulation but it
won't run in Linux. Also, I think that I am right in saying that the
Linux O/S won't address NTFS but only FAT32. The C: partition was
NTFS format.

However, I am interested in taking it further. I have the
professional implementation of Suse 9.2.

Colin

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

Hello Knoppix

I recognised your Linux association immediately when I visited your
web site. I have a windows utility to do the file manipulation but it
won't run in Linux. Also, I think that I am right in saying that the
Linux O/S won't address NTFS but only FAT32. The C: partition was
NTFS format.

However, I am interested in taking it further. I have the
professional implementation of Suse 9.2.

Colin

Knoppix will read NTFS formated drives and has all the tools you need
to copy files to external devices. The nice thing about it is you do
not have to install any thing, the CD is bootable.

 

[Guest]

Knoppix will read NTFS formated drives and has all the tools you need
to copy files to external devices. The nice thing about it is you do
not have to install any thing, the CD is bootable.

I went to your web site and clicked on what seemed to be the right
option. It took me to this reference:
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN.[content.emule-project.net].iso|730036224|E9682CF902AE61252F8518F362FAB4DF|/

The page was not available. Did I make the wrong choice?

Best wishes

Colin

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

Knoppix will read NTFS formated drives and has all the tools you need
to copy files to external devices. The nice thing about it is you do
not have to install any thing, the CD is bootable.

I went to your web site and clicked on what seemed to be the right
option. It took me to this reference:
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN.[content.emule-project.net].iso|730036224|E9682CF902AE61252F8518F362FAB4DF|/

The page was not available. Did I make the wrong choice?

Best wishes

Colin

First off it is not MY site, the site is owned/run by Knoppix.org and I
have no association with this group whatsoever.

Click on the US/UK flag to get to the english page, then click on the
download icon (second from the left) this will take you to a page that
lists many mirrors that you can down load the .iso file from that suits
you.

 

[Guest]

Colin Bearfield wrote:
On 14 Nov 2006 15:50:49 -0800, "GreenieLeBrun"


I had to help out a friend the other day. I had to format his C:
partition and restore an image. In spite of my earnest advice he and
his family had dropped all sorts of word documents on to the desktop
which were deleted.

In the old days I would have first booted up to a floppy with some
small utility (or just the MSDOS command line) and retrieved a few
files before formatting. Is there anything these days that could do
that sort of job?

Colin

Knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/

Just make sure you have your USB stick or external HDD plugged in and
installed before you boot the CD.


Hello Knoppix

I recognised your Linux association immediately when I visited your
web site. I have a windows utility to do the file manipulation but it
won't run in Linux. Also, I think that I am right in saying that the
Linux O/S won't address NTFS but only FAT32. The C: partition was
NTFS format.

However, I am interested in taking it further. I have the
professional implementation of Suse 9.2.

Colin

Knoppix will read NTFS formated drives and has all the tools you need
to copy files to external devices. The nice thing about it is you do
not have to install any thing, the CD is bootable.

I went to your web site and clicked on what seemed to be the right
option. It took me to this reference:
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN.[content.emule-project.net].iso|730036224|E9682CF902AE61252F8518F362FAB4DF|/

The page was not available. Did I make the wrong choice?

Best wishes

Colin

First off it is not MY site, the site is owned/run by Knoppix.org and I
have no association with this group whatsoever.

Click on the US/UK flag to get to the english page, then click on the
download icon (second from the left) this will take you to a page that
lists many mirrors that you can down load the .iso file from that suits
you.

I'll do that. I suppose the file that I will download has to be run in
windows and it will produce a bootable Linux CD. Is that right?

Colin

 

[GreenieLeBrun]

On 15 Nov 2006 13:52:10 -0800, "GreenieLeBrun"


Colin Bearfield wrote:
On 14 Nov 2006 15:50:49 -0800, "GreenieLeBrun"


I had to help out a friend the other day. I had to format his C:
partition and restore an image. In spite of my earnest advice he and
his family had dropped all sorts of word documents on to the desktop
which were deleted.

In the old days I would have first booted up to a floppy with some
small utility (or just the MSDOS command line) and retrieved a few
files before formatting. Is there anything these days that could do
that sort of job?

Colin

Knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/

Just make sure you have your USB stick or external HDD plugged in and
installed before you boot the CD.


Hello Knoppix

I recognised your Linux association immediately when I visited your
web site. I have a windows utility to do the file manipulation but it
won't run in Linux. Also, I think that I am right in saying that the
Linux O/S won't address NTFS but only FAT32. The C: partition was
NTFS format.

However, I am interested in taking it further. I have the
professional implementation of Suse 9.2.

Colin

Knoppix will read NTFS formated drives and has all the tools you need
to copy files to external devices. The nice thing about it is you do
not have to install any thing, the CD is bootable.


I went to your web site and clicked on what seemed to be the right
option. It took me to this reference:
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN.[content.emule-project.net].iso|730036224|E9682CF902AE61252F8518F362FAB4DF|/

The page was not available. Did I make the wrong choice?

Best wishes

Colin

First off it is not MY site, the site is owned/run by Knoppix.org and I
have no association with this group whatsoever.

Click on the US/UK flag to get to the english page, then click on the
download icon (second from the left) this will take you to a page that
lists many mirrors that you can down load the .iso file from that suits
you.

I'll do that. I suppose the file that I will download has to be run in
windows and it will produce a bootable Linux CD. Is that right?

Colin

Any operating system Win98, XP, Linux, OSX but you will need a program
that will convert the .iso file to a CD, just burning the .iso file to
a CD will not give you a bootable CD. Windows programs such as Roxio,
Nero, or the free CDburnerXP Pro (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/) will do
this.

 

[Colin Bearfield]

On 15 Nov 2006 13:52:10 -0800, "GreenieLeBrun"


Colin Bearfield wrote:
On 14 Nov 2006 15:50:49 -0800, "GreenieLeBrun"


I had to help out a friend the other day. I had to format his C:
partition and restore an image. In spite of my earnest advice he and
his family had dropped all sorts of word documents on to the desktop
which were deleted.

In the old days I would have first booted up to a floppy with some
small utility (or just the MSDOS command line) and retrieved a few
files before formatting. Is there anything these days that could do
that sort of job?

Colin

Knoppix
http://www.knoppix.org/

Just make sure you have your USB stick or external HDD plugged in and
installed before you boot the CD.


Hello Knoppix

I recognised your Linux association immediately when I visited your
web site. I have a windows utility to do the file manipulation but it
won't run in Linux. Also, I think that I am right in saying that the
Linux O/S won't address NTFS but only FAT32. The C: partition was
NTFS format.

However, I am interested in taking it further. I have the
professional implementation of Suse 9.2.

Colin

Knoppix will read NTFS formated drives and has all the tools you need
to copy files to external devices. The nice thing about it is you do
not have to install any thing, the CD is bootable.


I went to your web site and clicked on what seemed to be the right
option. It took me to this reference:
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN.[content.emule-project.net].iso|730036224|E9682CF902AE61252F8518F362FAB4DF|/

The page was not available. Did I make the wrong choice?

Best wishes

Colin

First off it is not MY site, the site is owned/run by Knoppix.org and I
have no association with this group whatsoever.

Click on the US/UK flag to get to the english page, then click on the
download icon (second from the left) this will take you to a page that
lists many mirrors that you can down load the .iso file from that suits
you.

I'll do that. I suppose the file that I will download has to be run in
windows and it will produce a bootable Linux CD. Is that right?

Colin

Any operating system Win98, XP, Linux, OSX but you will need a program
that will convert the .iso file to a CD, just burning the .iso file to
a CD will not give you a bootable CD. Windows programs such as Roxio,
Nero, or the free CDburnerXP Pro (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/) will do
this.

Right, I have Nero. Thanks.

Colin