HI everyone,

Please excuse my ignorance but I am not a computer wiz, I am in military so that should say it all.

I recently bought knoppix version 3.9 off of ebay to recover my daughters pics when windows crashed on my computer. I was able to get Knoppix to boot but when I tried to burn files to CD I received error after error. I then attempted to copy to my usb drive. I set permissions to read and write for the particular HD partition with the pictures and I also set up the usb to read and write as well. More specifically i did the following.

right clicked on usb memory icon
properties
permissions tab
changed all permissions to can read and write
checked box that says is exicutable
devices tab
unchecked read only

did basically the same for the dard drive as well

Even after I set the permissions to read and write I was still unable to drag and drop the pictures from the Hard drive to the USB stick. I tried and tried but I got no where. Now I am at my wits end and since I have limited abilites with computer software I am asking if someone could please show me a way to get my daughters pictures back. My wife is in tears and I am going to be gone all next month, I have to mail the old hard drive back to dell by sunday or I will be charged. So as you can see I am in a bind. lol I also have duty in the morning so I can not stay up all night trying to put my brain around this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.