Quote Originally Posted by gurdian
.....lemme confirm again, use only fa32 drives yes? no ntfs?

what if i burned them into cd's?

does knoppix 3.6 have burning software?
Knoppix has burning software.

Unfortunately, unless you have enough RAM memory to use the toram option and copy the entire Knoppix CD into memory, then you can't take the CD out of the drive, so you would need two drives, and either the second would have to be the CD writer, or you would have to use some tool (like Smart Boot Manager) to let you boot the Knoppix CD from the second drive.

There's also the issue of file size, since writing the files to a CD would either require you to split files (again needing some place you could write the temporary parts - not the ntfs volume) or limt you to the size of the media. If the file size is not an issue I can give you a little trick - get the Linux distro Damn Small Linux - it fits in 50 meg and it also can write CD's. Burn some images as the first session of a multi-session disk and leave the fisk open for future sessions. Then you can boot into Damn Small Linux, and use the CD writing software there to write to the remaining 650 megs of the CD. The resulting CD is no longer bootable, but has up to 650 megs of recovered files on it.

Gee, I'm wondering if DSL has a toram option also - it should need a lot less ram than Knoppix and would let you write up to 700 megs on fresh CD's that way..

Can you network that computer to another system that could hold the recovered files? I would think that might be the best way. I would just do binary file transfers via FTP to another system.