I recently began the impossible undertaking of backing up old NeXT Computer's hard drives, 2 of them, 1GB each, stored in what I believe was some sort of FAT formating. I downloaded and burned a copy of Knoppix understanding that it would be capable of understanding the unix and formatting of the NeXT computer hard drives as SCSI, being linux itself. However, this is not the case, and Knoppix is only recognizing the hard drive as one large unallocated hard drive, with no partitions of which to speak.

The hard drives themselves is still bootable on the NeXT computer interface, however the networking hosts file seems to be corrupted, as is the root password (roots' password can be reset a seemingly infinite number of times, and it will take the new password you give it, and yet you still have no root permissions, with or without super user on). This prevents us from moving over the 1.09gb and 1.04gb hard drives on 3 1/2 inch floppy drives as well (which hardly hold any information).

These hard drives have some fairly valuable information that I am trying to simply back up onto a thumb drive.

Any suggestions or input would be greatly appreciated.

~Mr. Mack