I had a few scripts set up in Knoppix 5.1.1 that would create back up images for various laptops. Knoppix 5.1.1 dose not load right on a new laptop so i downloaded Knoppix 6.0.1 and it won't even recognize that my scripts are there. Is there anyway to salvage my scripts for the new distro or would i have to start from scratch?

What exactly happens when you're trying to run the scripts? Could you post an example of the error message that the system gives you?
Where exactly are those scripts located in the system? Are they bash scripts or are they in some other language? Are they supposed to be called automatically (from a cron job perhaps) or run by hand?

Sorry, from your description of the problem it's very hard to understand what exactly happened. More info is needed.

Ok here it goes. Please keep in mind i recived these scripts to work with and did not write them myself. Also keep in mind i am fairly new with this
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I have an icon Laptop-Restore.desktop with the contents
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[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Comment[en_US]=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec='/mnt/sda1/imaging/su-restore-laptop.sh'
GenericName=
GenericName[en_US]=
Icon=
MimeType=
Name=
Name[en_US]=
Path=/mnt/sda1/imaging
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=true
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=none
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

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su-restore-laptop.sh
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#!/bin/bash

clear
# Sudo to root (gain root access).
sudo -s ./restore-laptop.sh
clear

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restore-laptop.sh
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#!/bin/bash

USER= 'whoami'

# Check that user is running script as root
if [ $USER = 'root' ]
then
# User is running as root, continue running script....

# Unmount and then remount firewire drive with correct permissions
# umount /mnt/sda1
# mount -o rw /dev/sda1

# Enable DMA - imaging will be very slow if not enabled
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
sleep 3
clear

# Load appropriate drivers for firewire drive
echo "Loading modules for firewire drive....."
modprobe ieee1394
modprobe ohci1394
modprobe raw1394
sleep 5
clear

else
# User is not running as root; provide instructions on how to proceed
clear
echo
echo -e '\E[37;45m'"You must run this script as root - the script will now exit.... To gain root privileges, type 'su'(without quotes), press Enter and then restart the script with the following command: ./restore-ibm.sh"; tput sgr0
echo
exit 1;
fi

{
# Warn user that hard drive will be overwritten
clear
echo
echo -e '\E[37;45m'"Restore IBM - If you continue the entire contents of the hard drive will be overwritten. All data on the hard rive will be lost"; tput sgr0
echo
echo -n "Do you want to continue (Y/N)?"
read answer
if test "$answer" != "Y" -a "$answer" != "y";
then
exit 0;
fi
clear

# set -x
# Start the actual imaging process now
partimage -f3 -b restore /dev/hda1 /mnt/sda1/images/laptop.000
}
{

# Image has been successfully created, reboot the computer
clear
echo
echo -e '\E[37;45m'"The image has been successfully restored. The system will restart now."; tput sgr0
echo
sleep 5
init 6

}
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now the exact proble is that with four of my 5 laptops i can load Knoppix 5.1.1 and see the laptops.desktop icon, double click it and restore the desired image. The remaining laptop will not load the GUI from knoppix 5.1.1 and so i cant get to the .desktop icon i made for it. I then tried using Knoppix 6.0.1, The GUI comes up fine but when i open my hard drive i dont see any of the .desktop icons in the directory where they should be.

does anyone have any ideas?