Everything I hear seems to be iffy. Some people say that at times you can hose the ntfs fs by writing to it. I would definitely image any partition or HD I was going to do this to, for safety's sake.<br><br>Chris<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 4/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Schultheiss</b> <<a href="mailto:schultmc@cinlug.org">schultmc@cinlug.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Matt Beal wrote:<br>><br>> Hi list<br>><br>> I'm looking to create a bootable cd which should write to NTFS partition<br>> to install an x.exe install. Sounds deviant, eh? Actually, I just to<br>> copy a Win script to the Windows Startup group which gives the
<br>> (extremely limited account) user choices of print drivers to load.<br><br>I'm not sure how well NTFS write works in Linux (I haven't tried it in<br>quite a while). KNOPPIX include Captive NTFS which supposedly loads the
<br>NT/2k/XP ntfs.sys driver and uses that for writing, but I never got that<br>to work. As I understand it, Captive NTFS is no longer maintained but<br>there are other NTFS write options.<br></blockquote></div><br>