Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
Quote Originally Posted by Laurent
- Do you know what type of partitions are on this external drive?
- No, tho it seems there aren't any. Just 75gigs of space, 3.5 of which is used.

- Do you know if it's even partitioned at all?
- Again not 100% sure, but it doesnt seem to be.
I'm not a MAC person by any means. But I think when you talk with some you'll find that the drive has some partition type on it. I just don't know how to talk you through finding what it is.


If you can resolve your Knoppix networking issue you could put the drive on your MAc and save files to it across the network (or on the MACs internal drive if there is space). But I wouldn't even know where to start finding out what the current partitions were on a MAC disk. I was hoping that maybe it was a blank empty disk (or one that you could erase) and that you could partition it with some FAT partitions and go from there.


i had a feeling this might be the case. thanks for your help and advice tho. i've managed to find some instructions on how to look for portable drives in KNOPPIX if they dont appear right away, so will give those a go i guess.
after that i think im down to my last solution of slaving the hd to another PC and retrieving the data this way.

many thanks tho.

Laurent