Copying NTFS Partitions

[HappyPaul]

Hello:

I was wondering; Is there a Live CD that is particularily good for copying from one NTFS partition to another?

I was working on a sick Windows system on the weekend and it sure would have been nice to have the ability to do a quick GUI copy from the NTFS partition to another.  I used to do this all the time when Windows partitions were more frequently formatted as FAT32...

That brings to mind a Windows annoyance; if you're trying to copy a large number of files from one location to another and Windows runs into a problem, it stops the process completely.  Gives you an error message but no option to simply skip the file it is having trouble copying.  What's the deal with that?  I wonder if there is some way to change this behaviour?

Paul

[admin]

G4L (Ghost for Linux) will do this. They have a Live CD but you could use any Live CD like Knoppix as long as it includes G4L.

[HappyPaul]

Here's a pretty good article, including some useful command line stuff if the mounting of the hard drive does not go smoothly (as Mounting often does not):

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/

Paul

[admin]

Good tutorial. Thanks for sharing, Paul.