Using Knoppix 4.0.2, I boot into my PC and correctly see my internal RAID drive (NTFS - from a crashed XP install) and I can see my data.
I have an external firewire 300 Gb HDD, preformatted as FAT32.
I changed my FAT32 to be writable.
When I copy files from NTFS to FAT32 using Konqueror, it begins the process but a few weird things happen:
1. status changes from transfer speed (i.e. 30 Mb/s) to "stalled." Sometimes the copy continues; other times it fails.
2. if the copy manages to complete, the status of my FAT32 drive often changes not allowing me to write anything further to it. I try unmount, mount, etc...but it doesn't work until I completely reboot again and start over.

I have about 240 Gb of data to retrieve and FAT32 is fine since I need a Windows install to see the files in the future (after I rebuild my PC).

I've also delete the partition using FDISK and recreated it using knoppix as vfat. That worked OK but didn't change my above results.

Any other ideas??