Knoppix 3.9 no longer detecting my pen drives

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I have Knoppix 3.9 on cd & am using to recover files from my acer laptop which will not boot on windows xp media, because the following file is missing or corrupt WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.

I tried a seagate external drive last night but knoppix will not make it writable as it says it is ntfs. Today no pen drives are being detected when I load Knoppix

Is there an equivalent of My computer where I can look for the drives?

Many thanks

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I reformatted a pen drive and now theyre being recognised again when I load knoppix.

[coopstah13]

I might suggest as well that you download and burn the latest version of knoppix. This should enable you to make your NTFS drive writeable, but its not completely necessary.

[hotpot]

thanks it's handy to know but Ive now managed to tranfer files using a small usb pen drive, linux would not deal with a brand new 2gb one, just my luck.