So here's my problem. My girlfriends macbook hard drive experienced hardware failure and will not boot... i tried everything to recover the info on the disk with the disk utility on the OS Discs... i tried Disk Warrior which wouldn't even boot.. and then i tried Knoppix which i've used several times on my PCs to recover files... That seemed to work; I can see the files on her hard drive now which is great cause i know they aren't gone... however I can't copy them over to my external hard drive because i keep getting an error telling me that the file system on her drive is read only... now i understand that this is a problem with the fact that her drive is formatted for HFS+ but i'm thinking there HAS to be some way to copy the files off of an HFS+ Drive... I read about the "hcopy" command that supposedly should accomplish this but when i tried it it came back with an error telling me that it isn't a recognized command in knoppix... if anyone knows how this could be done i would be EXTREMELY grateful as she really needs the files... And if Knoppix absolutely can't do it then if there are other recomendations of other boot discs or utilities i am very open to them.. Thanks in advance.

-Mike