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Originally posted by Ddunk
What's complex about it?

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The complex part is that I have no idea what to do. Feel special?

I might use a friends computer, but I don't live near anybody, so it's hard.

borrow a HDD from a PC shop or something an transfer files over to that , that you need an then format your HDD an reinstall windows

Yeah, but that's all things that I can't do myself, at home.

next best thing/way is to ring a comp shop an get them to do it

As I said earlier, you could try using one of these "Live CDs"
They can usually access NTFS/FAT32 partions and they usually have CD/DVD burning tools

what about trying a Knoppix LiveCD ?

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Originally posted by rav0
I normally use Windows, but Windows screwed up, The only way I can boot this computer is using a Ubuntu Live CD. I have 18 GiB of video which I want to burn then delete, to make room for a fresh installation of Windows. That video is on a NTFS partition.

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So then wouldn't you burn it then use fdisk or similar in the Windows setup to delete the entire partition?

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Originally posted by Animal
the latest kernels 2.6.15 or was it 2.6.14 does have NTFS support. as far as i know of it just wont support 64bit yet

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They have limited write support which also happens to be buggy and a pain in the ass to get to work properly.

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Originally posted by Mike
As I said earlier, you could try using one of these "Live CDs"
They can usually access NTFS/FAT32 partions and they usually have CD/DVD burning tools

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I really wish people would learn to read the threads.

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Originally posted by Animal
what about trying a Knoppix LiveCD ?

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And yet another stupid suggestion?

How about instead of wasting rav's bandwidth on downloading things which won't solve the problem.

Before posting - a general bit of advice to everyone - know what the hell you're replying to as well as give good decent support instead of wasting everyones time.

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
And yet another stupid suggestion?

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Not neccereally  ( however u spell it ) .. some people find Knoppix LivCD's easier to fix things than other LiveCD's

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Originally posted by rav0
I normally use Windows, but Windows screwed up, The only way I can boot this computer is using a Ubuntu Live CD. I have 18 GiB of video which I want to burn then delete, to make room for a fresh installation of Windows.

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Perhaps we have been going about this the wrong way.  Instead of trying to figure out how to back it up with a Linux LiveCD, perhaps we should be talking about fixing Windows. 

If the file system mounts under Linux, I am sure any problems with it could be repaired, to get to the point where you can reinstall Windows -- without formatting and losing data.  Do you want any help with that?  Have you tried that?  If yes, why did it not work?

Windows wouldn't load the Welcome Screen. I tried reinstalling Windows, but Windows Setup would freeze when there were "34 minutes remaining".

The Windows partition would mount under Linux, but as read only. Even when I mounted it as read/write, it would be read only.

Now I'm using miniPE. I've made room for a new installation, and I'm ready to install, but I'd like to see if anybody can help me with my new question, about how Windows Setup detects existing Windows installations.