Linux Live USB install for Windows admin

[ps3ud0]

Hi guys,

Quite an easy question, but thought best to ask in here. Im just after a nice and easy Linux Live install that works via a USB stick that I could use to backup a windows PC. Obviously Id need NTFS access, so Im wondering if theres not a perfect linux distro/setup that people use to do this. Any other useful tools it comes with might be handy (the windows install is just so slow that backup is a pain before I wipe and reinstall it)

Been a fair while since I used Linux, so assume Im a noob, especially anything cmd line!!!

TIA

ps3ud0

 

[ps3ud0]

Thanks for the suggestions - just trying to backup a friends files on his windows partition, as Im not 100% what he wants to keep I thought best to save everything onto an external USB HDD (formatted as FAT32).

I dont need a disk image just the files, but as windows is so so slow (especially on a Celeron M laptop) Id rather do it via linux to speed up the process. The only thing I could think of that I wasnt sure if a live linux install would have as standard was NTFS drivers

Quite happy to use Ubuntu Live USB stick and just copy all and paste it onto the external HDD. Tried using something called System Rescue CD but it doesnt seem to make a bootable USB sticks when I tried it...

ps3ud0