Hello Everyone,

I know you have heard this a million times but here it goes again.

I have a laptop running XP that crashed. Trying to get the data off using Knoppix. I am able to boot into Knoppix fine. The drive is running NTFS so I have to mount the hard drive from the shell using the following command:
mount -t auto /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

It appears to mount fine. I am able to cd into /mnt/hda1 and run a ls command and see the entire file system. So the drive appears to be mounted fine.

However, when I leave the shell program and try to access hda1 from the desktop I get the following message:
Could not enter directory /mnt/hda1

So it looks like the drive is mounted fine but I can not access it from the GUI. I have searched all over the forums and it looks like this could be a simple permissions issue in that when I am in the shell command I am running as su and when I am in the GUI I am running as the generic Knoppix user.

I am so close I am sure I am just missing something simple. I guess I could copy data out of the shell to the floppy drive. But I would really like file access from the GUI so I can burn a CD to back up all the data.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks In Advance,
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