Which program can move NTFS files to a backup drive without booting to Windows?

[Arcadio]

If a windows installation is damaged, which program would let me back up the user's documents to a usb external drive?

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Knoppix CD, BartCD and maybe Ultimate BootCD. Ghost v12 should also do what you need.

 

[mc866]

You could possibly try a Ubuntu live disc, I believe it has support for NTFS built in, you just mount the drive and move the files.

 

[QuixoticOne]

Indeed. Any major LINUX LIVE CD or LIVE USB distribution can mount ntfs via the ntfs-3g driver and then copy files to a USB or spare internal hard disc.
mkdir /mnt/sda1 ; mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 -o ro /mnt/sda1 ; ls /mnt/sda1
do
cfdisk /dev/sda
cfdisk /dev/sdb
cfdisk /dev/sdc
...
etc. to figure out which drives have which partitions to be backed up.
I'm sure that some of the LIVE-CDs will just auto mount them for you.

Or you could just boot XP from a newly installed 2nd hard disc and use it to run backups...