Re: Knoppix and a USB drive

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 19/08/10 21.50, Chuck Lewis skrev:
> 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),
THe file system is broken and your actions may make it worse.  You 
should make a copy of it without modification (e.g. with dd) and then 
salvage what you can from that copy to a clean filesystem.  You should 
expect that some files are messed up.

Then reformat the drive to get an ok filesystem and only keep stuff on 
it you have elsewhere too.