Hi,
I'm trying to recover data from a PC that ran Win XP. I have used knoppix 5 before a couple of times successfully. In this case when I connect the external usb drive (Maxtor Onetouch mini 120gb), first of all sometimes I get a mount error saying its a nonempty mount etc. and other times (like if I reboot) it would mount without problems. Anyways the weirdest thing I have noticed is that once it is successfully mounted, it will only write 7 files to a folder in the external drive. For example I made a new folder on the usb drive called "pics" and used drag and drop to copy files from the hard disk folder (\Documents and Settings\username\My documents\My pictures) to the destination "pics" folder on the external usb, it will only copy 7 files and after that give me a write error that it cannot write to the destination. I have tried several other source directories - no luck. I have also tried to drag and drop indvidual files and same thing happens after the 7th file. I have also tried to copy via command line using :
# cp -av /media/sda2/download/* /media/sdc1/backup/
since its verbose it shows whats going on and after the 7 files it gives an error:
cp: cannot create regular file operation not supported

After the 7th file is copied I cannot even "touch" a file in that directory....

Any ideas guys, I'm stumped ????
Thanks
uzee