Thanks to Bruce and Chris, I will attempt to do the command line stuff and see what happens. Regards John ----- Original Message Follows -----

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:26:21 jaytee(a)clear.net.nz wrote:

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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

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