saving my files - i need help

[lostwishes]

i had linux mandrake and windows xp installed in my computer but windows crashed. i have 3 partitions: 1 for windows (which is NTFS), 1 for linux and 1 FAT partition. i want to save some of my files in the windows partition. i use knoppix for that but i can't copy the files from windows partition to the FAT partition (it says it can not copy although i changed the permissions) and also i can not write them to a CD because i can not mount the CD-RW either. I logged in as root but again knoppix didn't let me. what can i do? please help me, thanks..

[user unknown]

Well - we need to know what is mounted where and how.
Do a simple mount command, and the output might be similar to this:

/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ntfs (ro, ...)
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /mnt/hda3 type vfat (ro, ...)

Then you could unmoumt it and mount it writable:

umount /mnt/hda3
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 -t vfat -o rw

Note: your mountpoints and partitionnumber may differ.