I am trying to recover my data to a USB flash drive stick. The following keeps occurring:
1. The progress bar doesn't indicate real progress, ie; it says 18 files out of 19 files transferred, for example, and marks the completion rate at 63%
2. When transferring folders containing files, the USB stick appears to copy the entirety of what is moved onto it, but this doesn't show up when it is inserted into my laptop.
3. Knoppix has corrupted the USB drive once, I reformatted and restored from DOS
4. I have (seemingly!) moved my image files off the disk and onto my stick, but (!) when I move 92Mb of images, for example, the USB registers all the files but at a total of 6.9 Mb space occupied when plugged into the laptop, and, furthermore, when I open the images, they are partially unfocused, infused with other photos, and mostly incomplete (20% of the photo visible).
5. The file transfer runs its course for some time and moves to 'stalling' mode, although it doesn't hang.

As seriously as I possibly can, I am earnestly asking for help. Before I learnt of this Linux-based OS earlier this afternoon, I was looking at spending another night in a series of sleepless ones that has lasted as long as I can remember - working like a maniac to restore my windows system32 config system corruption (its missing, can't be restored...how nice!)

Please help me...I feel maddened to have come so far after no success for so long, only to be hampered at this stage!