Knoppix question

SexyGreyFox · 24 Dec 2009 at 11:22

Yeah I know it's Linux but the question is more related to retrieval of PC files.

I had a PC to fix last week that was badly virused and wouldn't even kick into Safe Mode.
I booted with Knoppix so I could retrieve pictures off the hard drive and copied them to my external USB drive before I formatted.
When I checked my external hard drive in Knoppix I could see the photos but when I checked it with my PC nothing was there!!!

Can anybody explain what I did wrong?

Oooops, can a Mod put this into Windows & other Software for me please.

memyselfandi · 24 Dec 2009 at 12:03

I have had a similar thing with Linux based NAS's before now where copying files on under linux (at a low level) then made them not visible at all when the disk was browsed under Windows,

The problem was how the Linux file permissions were being interpreted by Windows into it's file attributes. This meant that the files were there but just not visible under Windows.

I'd try running

chmod -R 755 *

against the files under Linux as a starting point (unfortunately I'm away so don't have access to see what known working permissions are ... if the above is still the same then try 644).

(I'm assuming that the filesystem is compatible with Windows and you can access it, just not see the files on it)

uberchocolate · 28 Dec 2009 at 19:06

If you need some guidance on recovering your files, this article on installing linux on USB and recovering data from windows will prove pretty useful. The boot loader provided also can handle any version of linux you prefer.

danb21t · 28 Dec 2009 at 19:52

also sometimes with linux/unix files are not indexed until the removable storage is unmounted.