Greets,

My hard drive running windows XP crashed about a week ago with a corrupt registry error preventing me from being able to start the OS. I am trying to gain access to the protected administrator account to back up several files that I didn't have anywhere else. I was unable to achieve this using my vista and other xp pc by taking ownership. I remembered I had an old version of Knoppix (v3.6) and booted it up on my XP laptop. I was able to access the protected files no problem but could NOT copy them. I've checked both hard drive partitions made them read and writable and under devices un-checked read only. Re-mounted them both and still no go . Is it because they are both NTFS? I've hooked up a USB flash drive that was fat32 and attempted to copy over the files with the same results. I am not that familiar with Knoppix and am confused to what I am doing wrong.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!