Crippled ``Native'' Operating System

Let's say you have Windows XP Professional installed on a computer. One day, after applying a patch, the computer does not work anymore. Sure, you can spend some time to troubleshoot or reinstall the operating system, but you also have a presentation to make the next day, and you need to continue to work on the documents created in Microsoft Ofice.

Knoppix can help. Natively Knoppix includes Linux modules to handle most Microsoft partitions (FAT and NTFS). You may have heard that Linux cannot handle the NTFS in Windows XP. This is true that Linux has no native modules to do this. However, Knoppix includes a handy utility to use Microsoft's own drivers to handle its NTFS partition. So all is good.

Furthermore, OpenOffice is included in Knoppix. This is an office suite application that can read/write Microsoft Office formats (except Access database files).

In other words, with Knoppix, you can now continue to work on your documents on your hard drive, even though the native Windows XP operating system is crippled.