Quote Originally Posted by paul23
Thanks for the fast answers, - But what about the copying? ..
I answered what I felt comfortable answering. It is not my problem that you asked several unrelated questions in the same post.

I don't feel comfortable giving you advice on command line commands, read the man pages for that. I also don't know what you think you are copying these files too. And I strongly advise against writing to a NTFS partition with Knoppix, assuming that you don't want that partition corrupted also. To address your other new question, files 4 gog or over can not be written to any type of FAT partition.

The way that I use Knoppix to recover files when Windows refuses to boot is to transfer them to another computer across a network. I generally do this by FTP. I install a FTP server on a different computer (usually a Windows computer, there are many free FTP servers that you can find by a Google search), and then from Knoppix I use an FTP client to transfer the files. In the past I used konquror as the FTP client, but konquror is said to be omitted from Knoppix 6.2. I would imagine that one could still use any of the other browsers, or even the command line FTP client for this task.