Introduction

NTFS (New Technology File System) is a very powerful file system provided with NT versions of Windows (Windows-NT, Windows-2000, Windows-XP). Even if Windows still supports FAT, the Windows system disk is often formatted in the NTFS format.
The current version of the Linux kernel is able to read NTFS without any problem, but it cannot be mounted read-write as FAT or linux partitions. The Captive-Ntfs project allows mounting NTFS partitions with a full Read/Write support. This projects uses the NTFS supports from the Windows kernel itself. These drivers have to be copied from an installed Windows XP system. You can't get these files from Windows NT4 or Windows 2000. But once you get the drivers from XP, you can mount any NTFS version.
This chapter explains how to use the Captive-Ntfs support from SystemRescueCd.