welo Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 I need to backup some data from a failing harddrive! Windows cannot access the partition, but I can with a Linux LIVE CD from sysresccd.org. Unfortunately this distri cannot deal with the unicode filenames. To be more precise, I am unable to copy those files (files with non-Thai filenames work fine) from a NTFS partition to a FAT32 partition on a different harddrive. Error is 'illegal argument'. I tried the graphical file manager in xwindow as well as mc and cp. I am not sure if its a limitation of the file system drivers or some configuration issue of the LiveCD. Does anybody know a LiveCD that supports unicode filenames on NTFS/FAT32 out of the box? (Or with very little configuration work). Thanks, welo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernova Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Use BartPE or UBCD for Windows. Both have a graphical user interface and support unicode file names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dontdisturb Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 You should follow the advice of Supernova. I suspect SystemRescue CD, even if it's a very good tool, doesn't have support for thai language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welo Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Problem is my Windows XP cannot access the C partition, to be more precise the file system. D and E partition are OK, but the C partition where I fixed the MFT cannot be read by XP. If I remember correctly BartPE uses the same filesystem drivers since it is a modified version of Windows XP, isn't it? I might have a try nevertheless. Anybody tried to copy (Thai-named) files to/from Windows drives with Ubuntu? I guess there is an Ubuntu LiveCD around. welo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernova Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 ^ Posting this from Ubuntu 8.04.3 LiveCD. No problems copying files to/from Windows drives with Thai characters in the file name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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