I bought a new external disk today and copied some stuff from my old one, all goes well etc Then i want to do a disk check of my old one because i wanted to defragment it. Well after hanging i tried to use remove hardware safely (which i normally never do), but that failed, so i pull out the usb cable (it didn't do anything on my disk, i checked). So i ended the program that was checking, put my usb cable back in ... nothing. I thought it might be because it failed to close the generic controller, so i reboot. To my suprise it says 'Logical Disk', when i go to it, "... is unformatted, do you want to format it now ?" ... .... crap... I figured the FAT32 table was corrupt, so i quickly installed par!@#$%^&*ion magic 8. I see the file system is still FAT32 in pq8, but when i use its internal file browser no files to be found. I check for errors: 0 errors, i check for bad clusters: no bad clusters. greaaaaaaaat... so as a last resort, i boot my live cd of knoppix 5.1, and yay it recognizes the files. So i make my new external disk writable (ntfs in knoppix :s) and start copying file per file, but some files doesn't want to copy (unable to .... ) or even doesn't want to create the directory... i try placing it somewhere else on the disk and then it does want to copy o_O". Any idea why knoppix does that. Meanwhile im going to save the rest of my 200gb =.=