Re: Knoppix and a USB drive

[Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Others will disagree, but I suggest that you try SpinRite ..
www.grc.com .. it seems to do a nice job reconstructing data from bad
sectors and making drives with these kinds of problems readable.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
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> Got a PC in with the C: drive hosed to Windows but readable with
> Knoppix.
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> I can attach a USB memory (Kingston) stick to it can copy stuff to that
> just fine by simply right clicking on its icon and selecting
> Actions/Change read write mode. Problem is some subdirectories are WAY
> too big for this.
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> So I attach a USB HDD (Iomega) to it and do the same thing and get
> "cannot create folder". So I right clicked on if and hit Properties and
> made sure it was read/write for all "users" and also unchecked the Read
> only box (even though I had to do NONE of this with the Kingston),
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> Any idea what is going on.
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> Additionally we had a LaCie NAS and I cannot get that connected either.
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> Oh what fun!
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> Chuck
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