Partitions on one disk appear blank in Knoppix

I've just moved my drives to a new motherboard, and Windows 2000 is coming up with an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error due to the changed IDE controller. I can see all the drives in Recovery Console.

I want to copy the files on my Windows 2000 installation to a directory on another partition using Knoppix, but I find that, while the partitions on hda work correctly (including the 2000 installation partition), those on hdb appear blank; using the console I can change to /mnt/hdb2/ and so on but 'ls' shows them to be empty. All the partitions are allocated mount points, however, so the disk is obviously being detected.

Does anyone know what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance.

Did you mount it? As in mount /mnt/hdb2 , or right click the desktop icon and choose "mount", or just click the desktop icon for hdb2.

I'll try using the desktop ones when I get home this evening. I had been attempting to right-click in Konquerer and use that to mount, but it complained about not being able to find some file.

Fast way to mount all hdd partitions read/write:

su
mount -a

Then issue

mount

to see what's mounted and if it's writable. :)