Hi All, I am currently trying to recover three hundred media files from a windows system that keeps rebooting. With Puppy fire-hydrant the machine ran for a long time without error. I could access the windows drive and the files I wish to recover. The usb drive was mounted and had read write permissions. the problem was I could only copy ONE file at a time.. ON to Knoppix which also ran well, I could access the directories and bulk copy the files but could not mount the usb drive for some bizarre reason. Went to windows where everything I needed is available but it started rebooting as soon as it got warmed up.. My next course of action may be to remove the drive from the machine so that I can copy the info directly to another drive. However if some one knows a simple fix for the usb mount in Knoppix I would like to hear from you. Regards John