Captive NTFS : does it only work with XP ?

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Captive NTFS : does it only work with XP ?

Got the INSERT Live CD with clam AV and it cleans up my FAT volumes great.

trying to get it working with NTFS volumes on windows 2000.

can I ?

mjt wrote:

> sam1967@hetnet.nl wrote:
>
>> Captive NTFS : does it only work with XP ?
>
> ... does the FOLLOWING not fully answer your question:
>
> "Project implements the first full read/write free access to NTFS
> disk drives. You can mount your Microsoft Windows NT, 200x or XP
> partition as a transparently accessible volume for your GNU/Linux."
>
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

thanks. what i should have said was "has anyone tried it with 2000 and got
it working"

sam1967@hetnet.nl schrieb:
> Captive NTFS : does it only work with XP ?
>
> Got the INSERT Live CD with clam AV and it cleans up my FAT volumes great.
>
> trying to get it working with NTFS volumes on windows 2000.
>
Important: Captive works best (only?) if the MS-WindowsXP Versions of the
MS-Windows system files which are held "captive" are used. So have them at
hand somewhere.
--
Jan

Jan Kandziora wrote:

> sam1967@hetnet.nl schrieb:
>> Captive NTFS : does it only work with XP ?
>>
>> Got the INSERT Live CD with clam AV and it cleans up my FAT volumes
>> great.
>>
>> trying to get it working with NTFS volumes on windows 2000.
>>
> Important: Captive works best (only?) if the MS-WindowsXP Versions of the
> MS-Windows system files which are held "captive" are used. So have them at
> hand somewhere.

thanks for the tip. the 2 files it needs are ntfs.sys and ntoskrnl.exe which
need to be copied to /var/lib/captive