Dell tower running win2k has a fouled boot sector. If booted with a Knoppix CD and after mounting the fixed drive containing windows, what is the best way to recover some critical data. On other PCs with similar corruptions I simply copied individual files to a USB device. What I'd like to do here is establish a network connection and export entire directories. Is that possible? Also, can I capture/burn any of these items to a CD? Any directions would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, yes and yes. You can save to USB, over the network or burn to a CD....the choice is yours. A USB storage device (mem stick, camera etc) will usually appear as the first unused SCSI device on your system when plugged in, if you are running purely IDE then it will be /dev/sda1. To mount it: # mkdir /mnt/usb to create the mountpoint, then # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb You should now be able to save stuff to your USB device. When finished unmount it with: # umount /mnt/usb Over a network is an option too. Just configure your NIC either via DHCP or statically, I'm sure there is a GUI interface to do this in knoppix, otherwise you will have to use the ifconfig command. # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 to set the IP, then # ifconfig eth0 up to bring the interface up. To burn to CD try an app like k3b or xcdroast, not sure what comes with knoppix these days.

CD burning on failed harddrive is not recomended. Try to copy via network. rape moviesMr.Gordon BE