Quote Originally Posted by utu View Post
@ Forester

My scenario is very simple, and I can probably refine my question to be simpler.
Thanks utu for your description. I can't see anything dangerous in what you are doing.

I'm a bit surprised you say you copy the entire contents of the USB onto the hard drive and all you get is a file. I'd expect a folder with a few files and a couple of sub folders.

Anyway, the important thing is you are writing to the ntfs file system using Windows so you aren't running any (more) risks (than the next guy).

If you not remastering then I think you will find the only file that ever changes on the USB's FAT file system is knoppix-data.img so you could probably simplify your procedure further and even save yourself a little time and disk space.