Help with Read/Write Access

[CWB]

I have recently booted Knoppix 4.0 from CD so that I can rescue photos from my crashed laptop. Everything boted up fine, however when I go to copy the photos from the HD to a USB memory disk it says I do not have the write permissions to do so. I tried changing the folders properties to read/write access, however still does not work.

Any help appreciated.

[mindblast]

Make sure you are loged at root.

su root
<enter your root password>

[grimR]

if root is not the problem make sure you have the drive mounted with read write access

mount -o rw,remount /mnt/usbdrive

[CWB]

if root is not the problem make sure you have the drive mounted with read write access

mount -o rw,remount /mnt/usbdrive

Thanks. This was the problem. Much appreciated