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    Copy files to my hard drive

    Hello,

    I don't have a problem so to speak, but I am trying to do something. I bought an IBM ThinkPad, used, recently and it has a hidden partition with the recovery program on it. What I would like to do is use Knoppix to copy the contents of the hidden partition, which Knoppix sees just fine, to my C:\ drive then hopefully I can create a restore CD in case my hard drive goes to hard drive heaven someday. I have tried to do this with Knoppix but it keeps saying it cannot create a folder or can't copy files an so on. I appreciate any help or advice.

    Thanks All,
    Larry

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    all hdds are set up in read-only mode under the live-CD
    open the properties tab of your hdd (from the desktop) and there is a permissions tab that shows the drive is in read-only mode.

    uncheck it, and be careful afterwards

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    Thanks, I found this out with a little exploring and it worked wonderful, but it didn't really do me anygood. I was wanting to creat a system restore cd. I copied all the files from the hidden restore partition to a folder on my c:\ drive and then burnt the contents to a CD-R but there is nothing there for it to recognize at boot-up. I assume all the files are there but I don't know how to use them. I will work on this unless you have a suggestion? Thanks again.
    the hidden partition is used by a setting in the bios.
    in compaq's, when the boot cursor flashes on the rhs instead of the left, you hit a magic button and it goes into setup mode.
    the IBM would do the same thing but it's just the going into bios thing.

    instead of having a bios program in the bios chip (like most computers) they use the hidden partition to store programs and utilities which work with the bios in a bios'y fashion.
    so the files need to go back onto a partition of the same type, and also, possibly, in the same position if it's a boot block address type of access, so that the
    hit 'del' to get into bios
    has somewhere to actually go.

    it's the type of partition, the hiddenness of it, and possibly position , that make it get used by the bios program.
    having it in a folder on your main drive, i don't think would do much, but they might be runnable in dos mode.

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