HI there.

I am a total beginner to any flavour of Linux and have turned to it to try nd solve a major problem. My laptop (an AJP D870P) currently runs Windows XP Professional and has recently trashed eother the boot sector of the disk or the root or the registry so I am unable to boot up - even in safe mode..

I have a Knoppix boot disc and the machine will run this quite happily and load the NTFS as a read-only filesystem. Using this I can view all the documents without any problem. My problem is that I need to get several documents off the machine onto another one before re-installing the operating system. I have a USB 2 512MB Memory Stick that Lnoppix recognises as a "USB Mass Storage Device", but I can't seem to find a way to write files to it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in desperation!