Quote Originally Posted by fazzk
OK so after reading several posts here I have come to the conclusion that I probably will not want to write to this as it is a NTFS drive and I do not have the option of formatting it to FAT32. So - can someone recommend a good way to recover those files? I read some mentions of setting up an FTP - can anyone give me a walkthrough because I have never done that. Also - I am not sure if my knoppix is connected to the network bc the internet will not work on it. Thanks.

If the vista volume is unclean, you only have to mount it read only as youre only reading from it.
Your externally formatted NTFS HD will need to be mounted with write access as you are going to copy data onto it.
This is the easiest way as you can drag and drop files onto the external HD.

Using FTP requires a saecond computer and is unneccesary.