Hi.

I have used Knoppix to boot a computer which has a Linux (Debian) hard drive which currently refuses to boot ... I want to copy some of the files to a USB thumb drive to try to recover them ... but I can't get them to copy ... sometimes I get the message that I can't read the file I want to copy, and other times I get the message that I can't write to the device ....

I'm sure I'm doing something stupid, but I can't figure it out .... can anyone help, or point me to a howto that might get me started?

thanks