The data is about 1 gig in size with others more or less the same. I intend to put the data into a seperate hard disk connected to the PC.

If i understand correctly, that HD mustn't be NTFS yes? it should be fat32 then?

So lemme see if i get this right,

I can connect the laptop ntfs drive (via usb casing), boot up knoppix 3.6., Copy the large gigabyte contents from the laptop ntfs drive onto a seperate fat32 drive, without any loss or corruption of data correct? (Assuming XP didn't eat up the files in the first place)