Help with K3B, noob to knoppix and linux please help

**justinscouting** · 03-29-2005, 06:26 AM

Hi, my windows Xp recently suffered a major crash, and I am not able to get into my computer through windows. Since i figured this was a crash on my operating system, and I need to back up some files, I figured id try knoppix. I have 2 cd drives(the one i am not running knoppix on, the one i would burn with is a MadDog 6 in 1 dvd burner.), and planned to use K3b to save my data. I am using knoppix 3.7 EN.

First I mounted my harddrive then opened it up in konquer. Then I opened up K3b and preceeded to drag the files from the mounted partion to the K3b program. I was able to "successfully" burn the files onto a disk, as the program said I did. When I attempted to veiw these files on my mothers work laptop(which runs WinXP) to make sure they were burned correctly, but when I tried to view the contents of the cd, it said there was a d:/ drive error, and the cd could not be read. When I tried to view it on my brothers computer (a dell, with no internet, because I had to freshly reformat it and dells are a pain to fix up so everything works), it said there was no disk in the drive. I burned these files twice, on 2 different disks, and got the same results both times. I got angry and hoped maybe someone here could help me out (as google gave no help, it couldnt even tell me to drag the files from my partion...).

Now, I would network with the laptop, but because its my mother's "work" laptop, I am not allowed to network it because i may give it viruses from all my so called "corrupt" files. I know my harddrive and data were not damaged, only the operating system, so i should be able to recover the data. I would also network with that other dell computer but i have not been able to get any sort of internet or LAN connection running though that thing, as stupid dell had to seperate ALL of its drivers from the actuall winXP installation.

If any more information is needed about my system I will gladly relay it to you as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for your help if anyone can help me out here.

**chris-harry** · 03-29-2005, 01:21 PM

i'm sorry... but what i am going to say, is not proven, and is pritty much me theory and common sence... so it might be way off...

ok first mistake... i havent really used K3b because i dont have a burner... but configure it so that windows can read it... for example some file formats (on burnt cd) cant be read because its like in an advanced file format, but your still using dos... hopefully you understood that example... not good at examples... sorry...

ok... using Nero, and it says its different iso file types are ISO level 1 or 2, character sets are either ISO 9960 or Dos or ASCII, etc... if i use a ISO level 2, with ASCII and burn a cd... me windows 95 will not reconise it nor open it... its been writen in a different file type format... the same thing proberly goes with K3b... just goto options and change it to ISO level 1 or 2, with characters set to ISO 9960 or ASCII etc... making sure that windows will be able to view the file...

sadly... me internet connected pc is running windows... (this will hopefully change soon)... so i dont know if K3b has their file formats... you can always retest the cd, by opening knoppix agian, and insterting the cd to see if knoppix will reconise it...

hopefully i have sorta helped... but yet again, i havent really burnt anything using knoppix yet... sorry...

**fingers99** · 03-29-2005, 06:26 PM

I can see three possible issues:

1. And most likely -- you didn't set the "filesystem" to "add joliet extensions".

2. You used a CD-RW -- these are notorious for reading fine in the drive which created them, but not in another.

3. There's a general incompatability issue between your drive and your mum's.

**justinscouting** · 03-29-2005, 08:01 PM

well, like i said im still new at knoppix so i dont know how to set the filesystem to add joliet extensions, so i obviously didnt do that. And actually i did used a cd-rw, ill have to try it with a cd-r. Its not a incompatability issue because the drives have always been compatable with each other, plus it was also incompatable with my brothers dell pc.

So i guess ill try to figure out how to set the file system thing and ill try a cd-r... ill reply back with results.

**fingers99** · 03-29-2005, 09:36 PM

so i dont know how to set the filesystem to add joliet extensions

Does take some learning. But in K3b, once you know where everything is.........

When you click on the "burn" icon, if you've selected a "new data project" you'll see a grey screen with lots of tabs on it. Its one of those. Let us know how you get on.......