Ultra Frosty Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 I'm running Knoppix 3.3 on a Live-CD boot, and I noticed the HD activity light was going, I have a Windows XP partition in NTFS. Will Windows still boot or did Knoppix kill Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderRiver Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 You are weird. why don't you try it and find out yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultra Frosty Posted March 17, 2004 Author Share Posted March 17, 2004 I'm afraid I killed Windows (which wouldn't be a bad thing), becuase I need to use Windows for some apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 you are weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultra Frosty Posted March 17, 2004 Author Share Posted March 17, 2004 Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyB Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 If you did more than burn the iso to cd and stick it in your drive then you saw the warning about Linux and NTFS not being quite compatible. If you have not saved a config file or a persistent home to your HD then nothing should have been written to the disk. The drives are mounted read-only for a reason other than to cause you grief. Shirley you didn't try to make a HD install onto an NTFS drive. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultra Frosty Posted March 17, 2004 Author Share Posted March 17, 2004 Windows is safe, I changed the access to Knoppix to read only and booted back into Windows, where I am posting this. I wont write any files to the HD unless I had a FAT partition (im not stupid, but im weird). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 18, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 18, 2004 You shouldn't have had to change Knoppix to mount your drives read-only. It will do that always - with ONE exception: If you have very little RAM, and you have a FAT drive, and you answer its question about making a small swap file on your drive as "yes, it is ok", then (and only then) will it write to your drive. (and even then, it will only be to that one file, not the whole drive). You can always force it to remount the drives as read-write, but that would take deliberate user intervention. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 If you did more than burn the iso to cd and stick it in your drivethen you saw the warning about Linux and NTFS not being quite compatible. If you have not saved a config file or a persistent home to your HD then nothing should have been written to the disk. The drives are mounted read-only for a reason other than to cause you grief. Shirley you didn't try to make a HD install onto an NTFS drive. :laugh: who's Shirley and does she have a boyfriend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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