PatrickH
08-31-2004, 05:26 PM
My computer recentely crashed and refused to boot windows. I had to do a reinstall using home as appose to Pro ( Don't ask why... :? ).
My slave disk wouldn't recognise in XP Home, and someone recommended Knoppix, as it could read XP Pro created dynamic disks. Well it works fine :)
I couldn't manage to copy across from the slave to the primary, not sure why, I think It's because you can't write to NTFS though Knoppix. That wasn't really a problem, as I made a CD of all the important files I had on there, and subsequently put them onto my primary drive though windows.
The main problem I'm having is thinking of a way to transfer the 30 gigs or so of music I have on there... :? I have no DVD Burner, so making 40 or so CD's seems a little extravagant...(I could just use one CDRW 40 times, but still the process would take forever.)
I just recentely bought a iPod, and annoyingly enough my PC crashed before I could get the music onto it. So My question is, can I use my iPod as removable storage thorugh Knoppix using USB? It didn't seem to be mounted on the desktop ( Like I hoped it would) when i started it up with it connected. Is there any way I can make it recognise the iPod?
Oh and any general ideas/insults about what I'm doing wrong or If I'm going about it the wrong way would be great!
Thanks
Patrick
EDIT:
My Specs are
AMD 2400+
1 Gig of PC2100
Samsung CDrw/DVD Combo Drive
1x 20 gig Maxtor HDD (primary)
1x 80 gig WD HDD (Slave)
My thoughts are, once I have all my music on my ipod, I can reformat the drive and put the music from the iPOd back on to the newly formatted drive.
My slave disk wouldn't recognise in XP Home, and someone recommended Knoppix, as it could read XP Pro created dynamic disks. Well it works fine :)
I couldn't manage to copy across from the slave to the primary, not sure why, I think It's because you can't write to NTFS though Knoppix. That wasn't really a problem, as I made a CD of all the important files I had on there, and subsequently put them onto my primary drive though windows.
The main problem I'm having is thinking of a way to transfer the 30 gigs or so of music I have on there... :? I have no DVD Burner, so making 40 or so CD's seems a little extravagant...(I could just use one CDRW 40 times, but still the process would take forever.)
I just recentely bought a iPod, and annoyingly enough my PC crashed before I could get the music onto it. So My question is, can I use my iPod as removable storage thorugh Knoppix using USB? It didn't seem to be mounted on the desktop ( Like I hoped it would) when i started it up with it connected. Is there any way I can make it recognise the iPod?
Oh and any general ideas/insults about what I'm doing wrong or If I'm going about it the wrong way would be great!
Thanks
Patrick
EDIT:
My Specs are
AMD 2400+
1 Gig of PC2100
Samsung CDrw/DVD Combo Drive
1x 20 gig Maxtor HDD (primary)
1x 80 gig WD HDD (Slave)
My thoughts are, once I have all my music on my ipod, I can reformat the drive and put the music from the iPOd back on to the newly formatted drive.