win partition issue

[JBN]

I'm not at all clear on what you mean by the partition being locked. You will not be able to write to an NTFS partiton (even to delete files), but in general you can read file fine. It sounds like you may have more than one system there (both the talk about FTP transfer as well as perhaps another system that you actually burnt the Knoppix CD on). If so you may wish to boot Knoppix there and see how it behaves on a known good system.

It is locked, /root/mnt/hd1/ is locked, or so it is displayed...

Well no, I thouhgt I can burn CD under knoppix...

FTP I had in mind is one of servers on the web, not in my local network.

While Knoppix can often open a partition and access files when the all too frequent problem of XP refusing to even boot happens, it can't read data that is no longer there and certainly can't always access every partition no matter how corrupted it is. So it could be that you have the partition so mucked up that Knoppix can't open it. There is a tool that may be able to repair the partition table if that is what has been damaged, but if the file system in the partition itself is scrambled it may be harder to recover the files (although there are some other Linux based live CDs like Helix that might give it a good effort). For now it would be wise to try to determine as much as one can about what happened to the disk. Do you have any insight on the cause of the problem?

Well, partition table is ok now, knoppix itself shows partition info correctly. Partition table was corrupted, I fixed that.

I guess this is one of those sutuations then, where knoppix can not read win$it partition.

Helix?
I will give it a try, thank you!