Writing to a Maxtor USB Drive
Hi have a Windows machine. It's crashed. It's going to get wiped and Linux is going on top of it.
Before I do that, I need to get the data off it. I have a Maxtor USB drive. Knoppix can see it and I can read the data on the Maxtor, however, when I try to copy data to the Maxtor, it fails.
How do I tell a Knoppix Live distro how to enable desktop copying?
It mounts the drive as:
/mnt/sda1
Thanks for any help and advice.
I wouldn't do that if I were you...
Captive isn't the most reliable of ways of writing to NTFS partitions. Yes it can be done but if you're trying to recue data that's important why take the chance? If there is no data on the drive reformat it to something more useful to both OSes such as FAT32. Or, repartition the drive so you have 2 partitions if you have data on there you wish to save. As for getting the latest Knoppix that's entirely up to you. Supposedly there is support for writing NTFS natively but I've not tried it so I have no valid opinion either way. I say go for it as I've used it to write to FAT32 partitions on both internal and external drives numerous times.
YMMV,
'Goon