[quote="Harry Kuhman"]
Quote Originally Posted by MannyLNJ
... I know I can't write to the local hard drive so I'm writing to a network share. ...
It's not clear why you know this. Knoppix can write to a local partition just fine, as long as it's not an NTFS partition and you change it from the default read-only mount to read/write (with the mount command or by right clicking on the partition icon and using the actions sub-menu.)

I know it because the hard drive on the system that has the card readers is formatted as NTFS. And I know there is still no 100% safe way to write to a NFTS partition under Linux.

I'll look into Gpart., but does this sound reasonable

Step 1-On another computer on the network make a shared folder
Step 2-While running Knoppix connect to the shared folder
Step 3-Use DD to copy the data from /dev/whatever_the_card_shows_as to /share/folder
Step 4-Use Gpart to try to recover data?

If so what would the command I need to use in Step 3 be?