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Up to this point Mounting Windows You can also Keeping Your KNOPPIX

Provided your partitions are properly detected, mounting Windows partitions is no different than mounting Linux partitions. For Windows file system types FAT and VFAT, there should be no problem mounting and writing to those file systems. For NTFS file systems, there are a few things you should consider before writing to them.

Earlier versions of KNOPPIX allowed you to download a feature called Captive NTFS. With Captive NTFS, you could use native Windows drivers to access NTFS partitions from KNOPPIX. This was considered to be reliable enough that you could write to NTFS partitions without much fear of corruption.

The current version of KNOPPIX uses drivers from the Linux-NTFS Project (www·linux-ntfs·org/) to provide support for accessing NTFS file systems from Linux. The advantage of using Linux-NTFS is that NTFS partitions can be mounted and used just like any other Linux file system.

In other words, you don't need Windows drivers. The downside is that writing to NTFS partitions using Linux-NTFS is considered unreliable and could cause corruption to your NTFS partition. So, I recommend you not try to write to an NTFS file system from KNOPPIX if it contains critical data, but feel free to read from NTFS during a KNOPPIX session.

Creating a Persistent Home Directory

If you are going to use the computer more than once with KNOPPIX (or if you just want more storage space for files than your computer has available in RAM), you can assign your KNOPPIX home directory (/home/knoppix) to use some of the available space on your hard drive. That can be done in either of two ways:
Assign an entire partition to be used for your home directory.
Assign a part of that partition for your home directory, in the form of an image file.