--The external drive is likely FAT32, which you can verify by doing ' fdisk -l ' as root. Files >2GB are not supported on Fat32 by linux (I've run into the same problem.) Which means I don't store my files on Fat32 or (God forbid!) NTFS unless I absolutely have to.

Your best bet may be reformatting the external drive as ext2, and using a Windows e2fs driver after copying the files.

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html

To reformat the external drive: You should move any essential data off it 1st, otherwise it will be gone.

o ' fdisk /dev/sda ' == Assuming your USB drive is sda; and hit Enter after each command:
' p ' == Print partition layout
' t ' == Change partition type...
' 1 ' == ...of 1st partition, or whichever one it's using
' L ' == List types available (educational)
' 83 ' == Change to Linux
' w ' == Write to disk and quit

o Now to format it:
' mke2fs -m0 -v /dev/sda1 '

o Then you can mount it and copy the files:
' mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 -onoatime,rw '

' time cp -apRv /mnt/hda1/* /mnt/sda1 ' == Assuming your Win files live on hda1 and it's already mounted

--From there, you can reboot, reinstall Windows and then install the ext2 driver from the link above, and hopefully it will detect your USB drive.

Quote Originally Posted by Casshern
Hello,

I have a computer that crashed a couple days ago. Windows XP is not bootable (what a surprise) but I have about 30 gigs of data that needs to be backed up. I can get about 15 of it. The other 15 is files that are 7.5 gigs a piece. I am trying to transfer them to my external drive via usb but the process "unexpectedly dies" after it transfers 2 gigs. I have tried about 5-7 times now. Each one dies at the same point. I was wondering if there was a file transfer size limit in Knoppix.

Thanks,
Casshern