Novice with Knoppix 3.6 - Crashed XP Hard Drive

[olivers]

this does not appear to apply to Ver 3.6 which gives me a window listing the two CDroms and asks for a change???????? Don't know what to do to activate burn capability after see this k3b screen.

Just click OK - I think ver 3.6 is pretty much set up for you. Give it a go and let me know what happens. The key part of it is that you need two CD drives - one for the Knoppix disk and one for the blank CD you're going to burn onto.

I don't know how to burn directly from the XP drive. When I try to open the hard drive in k3b, it puts the drive on the list to burn. Obviously I'm not going to be able to burn a 57 Gig hard drive on a CD.

Try this:
1. click the icon on the desktop for the hard disk partition you want to copy files from. This will mount the partition so you can read files from it, and open a file browser window. (sounds like doing this inside K3b won't work, as you have discovered :-( )

2. start K3b and click on "New data CD project"

3. To get access to the individual files on your hard drive, use the tree-view on the top left to browse to the appropriate spot:
- open up "Root" --> "mnt" --> "hda1" (or whatever your partition is)