First of all, has anyone had bad experiences with the Captive NTFS driver/kernel modual/emulation layer (on any distro)? Second, can I use it with Knoppix (11-14-EN version)? And if so, do I need to do anything different than if it were a standard HD distro? I'm going to be using dd to backup my Windows system to my spare (NTFS-formatted) drive and so I need to know if this will work.

i burned the cd of the linux defender based on knoppix 3.3

the booting part completed fine of the live cd.
now i have these partition icons on the desktops and i knew the one with ntfs f/s. when i clicked on them the they didnt get mounted in read only mode as they would get mounted under regular knoppix. then i guess an captive ntfs application came up looking for ntfs.sys and other drivers on the disk. it scanned the whole disk and found all the five drivers that it was looking for. i dont have the screen shot in front of me to describe it in more detail. but as soon as the last .sys file was found, i mean the last driver out of the list of 5 that it was looking for the system automatically rebooted. same thing happened couple of times and i gave up.

did some more research and found i could mount it using command line.
i did
mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 and the parition was mounted. it was ntfs in r/w mode and i couldn't believe. i deleted one file under temp directory on this ntfs partition and modified the boot.ini. so after mounting the ntfs partition in r/w mode i deleted a file and modified a file. i rebooted the system back into XP Pro (forgot to tell you earlier). after booting into XP i fould that neither that file was deleted nor the boot.ini file was modified.

i think the reason is, i was able to mount the fs in rw mode but i should have applied some more options. -t captive-ntfs is not just enough. i think i have explictily enter rest of the four drivers files as mount paramaters.

will have to work hard to get it working.

certifieduser

I found another distro that has Captive-NTFS installed. System Rescue CD is a distro that is primarily used to setup, backup, and rescue hard drives, so NTFS read-write support was very important. I coudn't test the read-write support as that distro didn't like my SATA controller.