On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:26:21 jaytee@clear.net.nz wrote:
> 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.

Have you tried copy the files using the command line? ie

Something like

cp -Rv /mnt/path_to_windows_mounted_file system_files/* /media/usb/.

-R recursive (so will include sub directories)
-v verbose (so you can watch what is happening)

obviously you'll have to amend the file system paths.

Cheers,

Chris