More than a few people wrote in to let me know about other interesting "live" distro's of Linux after our post on using LinuxDefender Live CD to Fix NTFS problems ran.

The one thing that blew my mind is that the download links for LinuxDefender Live don't even work any more (One thing you should understand about me is that I'm a pack-rat. If I like something, I make 15 copies of it and hide it in several different counties.

In going over all the alternatives (including a very nice and mature Knoppix that now fully supports NTFS read/write), I settled on Puppy Linux. It seemed to have the best frugal-to-usable ratio out there. And, no surprise here, it's very easy to use.

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