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

Arcadio

Arcadio

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