[rainforest123]

While researching a Win XP BSOD issue for a forum member, I came across this site.
http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/200...-with-knoppix/

I downloaded the .ISO & burned it. I booted my computer to the KNOPPIX Cd and was greeted by the KNOPPIX desktop.

As a test, I tried to copy some of my files from an NTFS partition on my HDD to a flash drive with FAT32 file type. KNOPPIX informed me that writing was not supported by K.

So, how do I utilize KNOPPIX to fix Windows?

The author of the site sited above discusses the copying & pasting of files from a location on the HDD to another place on the HDD. To me, that is writing.

I had thought I could use K to transfer files from an unbootable [ due to file corruption ] HDD to an optical disk or flash drive.

I need some education, & I know that Tech Guy Forum is the place to come for assistance.

RF123

[lotuseclat79]

Hi rainforest123,

Was the USB flash drive in the socket before you booted or after you booted? Knoppix does an auto mount of some hard disk drives on boot as I recall - some other Live CDs do not, ex. Ubuntu.

If you placed the USB flash drive into the computer after you booted Knoppix, then you probably need to mount the USB flash device with a mount command, unless Knoppix is capable of auto mounting the USB flash drive when it is inserted after Knoppix is booted up.

As the regular Knoppix user, issue the command: $ mount

Is the USB flash drive mounted? If it is mounted, then the mount point directory will print out in the output of the mount command.

For example, my USB flash drive mounts automatically when I place the USB flash drive into the USB socket at the mount point. Here is the result of my $ mount command:
/dev/sde2 on /media/casper-rw type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev)

So, now in order to write to the USB flash drive which is mounted (rw), then I must first reference the mount point (assuming the NTFS drive is auto mounted at /mnt/NTFS):
$ sudo -i
# cp -rp /mnt/NTFS/mydir /media/casper-rw/mydir
The above command should recursively copy the directory mydir and its contents to the USB flash drive mounted at /media/casper-rw/.

Both devices should indicate their mount points on the output of the mount command.

-- Tom

[rainforest123]

L:
Thanks for the reply.

The flash drive was in the computer at boot.

The flash drive was recognized in the "my computer equivalent" tree.

KNOPPIX informed me that KNOPPIX "could not write to /mnt/sda1/13_feb.txt "

Your text:
"So, now in order to write to the USB flash drive which is mounted (rw), then I must first reference the mount point (assuming the NTFS drive is auto mounted at /mnt/NTFS):
$ sudo -i
# cp -rp /mnt/NTFS/mydir /media/casper-rw/mydir
The above command should recursively copy the directory mydir and its contents to the USB flash drive mounted at /media/casper-rw/. "

Is KLingon to me. [ I know a little Greek. ]

Where do I enter said commands?

RF123

[monckywrench]

See if this helps:

http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/