Hi, my windows Xp recently suffered a major crash, and I am not able to get into my computer through windows. Since i figured this was a crash on my operating system, and I need to back up some files, I figured id try knoppix. I have 2 cd drives(the one i am not running knoppix on, the one i would burn with is a MadDog 6 in 1 dvd burner.), and planned to use K3b to save my data. I am using knoppix 3.7 EN.

First I mounted my harddrive then opened it up in konquer. Then I opened up K3b and preceeded to drag the files from the mounted partion to the K3b program. I was able to "successfully" burn the files onto a disk, as the program said I did. When I attempted to veiw these files on my mothers work laptop(which runs WinXP) to make sure they were burned correctly, but when I tried to view the contents of the cd, it said there was a d:/ drive error, and the cd could not be read. When I tried to view it on my brothers computer (a dell, with no internet, because I had to freshly reformat it and dells are a pain to fix up so everything works), it said there was no disk in the drive. I burned these files twice, on 2 different disks, and got the same results both times. I got angry and hoped maybe someone here could help me out (as google gave no help, it couldnt even tell me to drag the files from my partion...).

Now, I would network with the laptop, but because its my mother's "work" laptop, I am not allowed to network it because i may give it viruses from all my so called "corrupt" files. I know my harddrive and data were not damaged, only the operating system, so i should be able to recover the data. I would also network with that other dell computer but i have not been able to get any sort of internet or LAN connection running though that thing, as stupid dell had to seperate ALL of its drivers from the actuall winXP installation.

If any more information is needed about my system I will gladly relay it to you as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for your help if anyone can help me out here.