I have laptop with XP. It crashed the other day and a friend told me about Knoppix, that it can be used to boot the laptop and then can be used to remove important files from the HD.

I booted Knoppix from the CD and everything ran fine. I saw the files that wanted to save to the USB drive. But when i clicked and dragged the files/folders, it said that "Could not write to /mnt/sda1/somedoc.doc"

Is this a permission issue or something else. I was able to remove files from the USB drive, eventhough i could not delete them directly.

Please help!!

Also, since i only have one drive i cannot backup data to a CD or DVD. But at my work i have a external DVD burner, could I just hook that into my laptop and expect Knoppix to recognize it? Thanks!!!