NTFS - a little off topic

[Brad Spangler]

I expect this might help...

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

--- rod holcomb <rodbrenda.2 at gbronline.com> wrote:
> 
> Situation:
> My neighbor gave me a 20 gig hd that came out of his
> WinXP machine.   I would like to recover a few files
> (address book and email) for him before I reformat
> the drive.  I was able to mount the drive (on a
> RH8.0 machine) and I can see the directory
> structure.  I can access the 
> 
> /WINDOWS                 directory, but the
> directories 
> 
> /Program Files           and
> /Documents and Setting
>   
> are listed after a “ls –l” command but I cannot
> access them.  Actually the file type is (?) instead
> of (d) and the size is zero as I recall.
> 
> Any suggestions on getting to this data (if in still
> exists)?  I can ask him for the usernames and
> passwords that he had been using.
> 
> I can also bring my server (RH8.0) with the WinXP
> drive attached to the next meeting if that might
> help.  
> 
> It has been suggested to me to get a dos boot floppy
> from NTFS.com and use that.   
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks 
> Rod Holcomb
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Brad Spangler

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