Originally Posted by
Simonta
Microsoft didn't make anybody take something out. As I said in my last post, the only reason Knoppix (or anyone else) could not write to NTFS was because MS didn't publish the interfaces.
Things may have changed, but NTFS support was in the early versions of Knoppix that I used. It worked well in 2005 or thenabouts, when I helped a friend recover something like 50,000 photographs off his XP Pro machine.
The next time we tried, the latest Knoppix refused to write to the same external device. Google revealed this
Legal issues most likely. NTFS is still 100% property of Microsoft. A similar issue prevented Klaus from including nF2 drivers in Knoppix awhile back IIRC. If you wanted them, you had to do a remaster to include them.
May all be tosh, of course. Anyway, the last Knoppix I tried wouldn't write to NTFS but was happy with FAT etc. So the external drive, used probably three or four times a year with Knoppix, is FAT32. No problems, no need to change it. Once the job's done, I reformat it to remove the stuff ready fo next time.
Yes, she had set all the family members as Admins. When I do Win 7, I'll set her as a normal user and an Admin account for when needed.