New Linux user here.

I have an IBM R51 laptop running Windows XP. It crashed w/ an "unmountable boot volume" screen. A friend of mine gave me a Knoppix Linux 3.2 CD to boot with. My machine booted wonderfully and I can see all of my files. When I try to copy and/or move my files to my Seagate backup drive, I get the message "Could not write to /name of drive/ name of file."

I've changed the read/write/execute permissions for my hard drive and Seagate drive. Note sure how to proceed.

Thoughts?

thx.
kelly