Help, please.

I tried to recover data from a Dell Optiplex GX270 with a broken NTFS drive. I found the My Documents folder intact. I wanted to copy it to my Flash memory stick. I could not. The drive, a simpletech bonzai 512 card, was recognized. In the infocenter all of the hardware details were described correctly. I kept getting the "not a block device" and "not a valid format" when I tried to mount in the the various ways I found when searching Google. I know the drive is good because I used it in Windows. I finally gave up and formatted an old disk as a FAT32 and connected that to the usb port. The fat32 drive worked fine.

As I searched Google I found that Flash memory devices still seem to be a challenge to Knoppix even at release 4.02. Maybe I just didn't find the right mount instructions?

Can anyone give me a simple set of instructions?

Is another "live" cd better???