Quote Originally Posted by GoDofUSA
ok i got the latest knoppix and it found my hard drive. im curious if i can burn the files i want to save to dvd without them screwing up when transfering. i dont know how linux operates in regard to pc files lol
Not sure what you think the latest Knoppix is. If you have multiple optical drives and can boot from one and burn to the other, maybe, but there are some bugs in the real newest DVD version that affect burning (follow the Documentation link near the top of this page and read the BUGS section for details and the fix). If you have the real newest version, the DVD version, then you likely can't use the toram cheat code, but if you have 3.9 the CD version then if you have a meg of memory then you could use the toram cheat code to free up the CD drive. Otherwise the CD needs to stay in the drive (you booted from CD, remember). Knoppix does not write to your disk unless you tell it to. And whatever you do, do not try to write to your NTFS partitions to fix this, you will likely destroy the partition. Knoppix can read files from a PC partition just fine. It can write to a FAT partition. But MS seems to be doing it's best to make sure that Linux can't safely write to an NTFS partition. The most common use of KNoppix to recover data from a hard disk like in this case is to access the disk with Knoppix and move the files to another different computer across the network, then rebuild the hard disk and move the data back.