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Hi All,
I've recently developed a problem with a windows machine and my only other working computer available to secure my date from is a PC running Fedora 5. What I want to do is put the hard drive out of the windows machine into a USB enclosure, attach it to the Fedora machine, and secure the data from it.
The Windows machine was running MS XP Home and is formatted to NTFS. Does anybody know how to get the Fedora to be able to read the NTFS volume?
Many Thanks John
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It should see it straight away. Ubuntu sees my NTFS partitions and allows me access.  You may just have to right click and mount the volume.
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Nope, you get a pop up window that says 'ERROR! Cannot mount volume. The volume uses the ntfs file system which is not supported by your system.'
I took a screenshot of it but can't load the pic into this posting, because it is in .png format, and the forum won't accept it.
Thanks John
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Hi Gn2. This seems a sensible option, but the process seems quite complicated. I'm a little wary of messing things up!
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Boot the Windows machine with a Puppy Linux cd. Attach a usb drive, mount it, then mount the Windows hdd. Copy your files to the external drive.
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Put the Windows drive into a usb enclosure. Boot your Fedora box with a Puppy Linux cd and attach the usb drive. Mount the Fedora 'Home' partition and the usb drive, then copy your files from the usb drive to the Fedora 'Home' partition.
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Hi Grenville,
That sounds like a fairly problem free plan. I don't have a copy of Puppy but that is easily sourced anyway. The plan A will not work because the Windows Machine won't even post. It's dead as a door-nail. But the plan B, i.e. booting Puppy live from the Fedora machine should work.
On the long term I'll probably have to replace Fedora 5 with either latest version of Fedora, Suse or Mandriva. The system is a Dell Poweredge [pedistal style] with 2 x Pentium 3.0 ghz Xeons and 2 gig ECC ram so should be able to cope with the relative bloat of a latest release RPM Linux.
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Posted from a tottering back into life [B] rig (my browser [C] rig died last night !)
Why not try a PartEdMagic2.2 LiveCD, from :
http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php?n=PartedMagic.Downloads
It's Thunar File Manager should be Fedora-compatible, whilst Its 2.6 series kernel should help. Could be worth a quick try, It's just been invaluable rescuing my [C] rig drive data and source files. 
(A Maplin A35FQ was also extremely helpful.)
Edit PS - 18aug2008 - PartEdMagic is now at version 3.0 and it's an even better toolkit, with more Windows Explorer like file access and transfer.
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