Well, when I'm in Knoppix heres what the desktop displays:

Floppy

Hard Disk
[sda]

Hard Disk
[sdc1]

Trash

KNOPPIX

and another KNOPPIX icon a bit to the left.

The sdc1 is the usb flash drive I plugged in to try and transfer files to. I don't have a partitioned hdd. Still the way it came from the manufacturer. There isn't any hda1 on the screen.

A friend of mine said something along the lines of "knoppix doesn't get along well with ntfs"...could this be the reason I'm getting this error? Anyway, any more advice, much appreciated.