Mount readable drive in Knoppix

[ramya]

Hi All,
I am trying to recover my crashed windows files onto an external hard drive after booting through knoppix. Although it did detect my external drive it is in read only mode and any data I paste onto the external drive is not copied. The error it gives me is "cp: cannot create regular file '/mnt/sdb1/.....' : Read only file System'"

My hard drive is formatted with ntfs and external disk is formatted with fat32
Any idea how I should make my external hard drive writable?

Any help is really appreciated!

Thanks

Ramya

[Harry Kuhman]

Some people think that with version 5.3.1 it is safe to write to NTFS with Knoppix. I'm not yet convinced. In the past many partitions have been badly corrupted by people using tools in Knoppix to write to NTFS (and people thought it was safe then too). So I'm not going to walk you through the process of making the partition writable, although I expect that someone else will come along who will. I suggest instead that you connect two computers across a network and run an FTP server on the destination system, then use Konquror on the Knoppix system as an FTP client. Alternately you could use a FAT formatted flash drive, or if the contents of the external drive are not important to you, format it as FAT32 and then transfer files to it.