Please Help Me!

[dudeking]

Right to give the full story here’s what happened...

...I had windows XP installed on my pc on an 80GB Hard Disk. I then used partition magic to shrink that down to a 70GB partition, and created a 10GB partition which I then installed slackware Linux on. The instillation went well (except failing to successfully write to the MBR, so I created a boot disk on a Floppy disk.) and Linux worked. I ran Linux for around 30mins when I decided to check to see if windows XP was still working. After restarting my pc and removing my Linux boot disk I was given the error 'NTLDR is corrupt or missing'. I then restarted with my XP CD in drive D and booted from it. I ran the recovery console and followed several guides on the internet to fix the error (which just changed the error I was given) e.g. writing a new boot sector, MBR and replacing several .dll's. None of these worked so I was forced to reinstall windows. So I booted Linux up and created a folder called 'Backup' in the root folder. I then copied every thing I wanted to keep off my windows installation e.g. Documents and Settings, Emails and Game Settings into it. The 2.9GB of files copied successfully. So I deleted the 70GB Windows partition, created a new one over it and formatted it using the NTFS file system. I installed windows XP.

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Now My problem...

...I cannot copy my files back from Linux to windows. I have tried using pen drives (says cannot create directory (or summing similar)). Burning to CD... Can’t work out how to install the software (K3B) (I have never used Linux before I don’t really know how it works). I don’t care about any of the files except the 2.9GB that I need to save. I don’t need any of the OS's they can be reinstalled I just need the files.
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If any one can help me please do. I’ve been trying to solve the problem for a week now.

Thanks Eddie

[kage]

What version of slackware do you have? K3B should be installed in the default install...

If not, you will have to download the source from here(http://k3b.plainblack.com/download):

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/k...r.bz2?download

Save it to your home directory. Then open up a terminal window, become root (su), run 'ls' to make sure you can see the k3b-0.12.10.tar.bz2, and run 'tar -jxvpf ./k3b-0.12.10.tar.bz2'. This will create a directory called k3b-0.12.10, so cd to that directory ('cd k3b-0.12.10'). There you will run './configure' to configure the install scripts, 'make' to make the install directories, 'make install' to install the package, and 'make clean' to clean up the install. You should now be able to run 'k3b' from either a terminal or your window managers run menu, and be able to burn cd's.

If that seems like too much trouble, you can grab a binary package of k3b here (http://slackware.mirror.gudangopenso...e/extra/k3b/):

http://slackware.mirror.gudangopenso....19-i486-1.tgz

Save it to your home directory, open a terminal, and as root (su) simply run 'installpkg ./k3b-0.11.19-i486-1.tgz'. Then k3b should be installed, and you can run it as you normally would.

Note that you might need to run settings>k3b setup from within k3b in order for it to see and setup your cd drive(s).

[dudeking]

Just going throught my posts and found this from ages ago.
Just to let you know that I have fixed it, well fixed it about 6months ago.

Thanks for your help kage!