Jimi,
Welcome to the "tech zone". You have, indeed, come to the right place!
(a suggestion: word your posts with as little North American vernacular as possible. Most of our members have English as their second - or third - language, and although they are
very good, whacked-out figures of speech tend to elicit confused responses...
)
One issue you may be dealing with is the fact that Linux data and Windoze data are stored entirely differently. Trying to pull Windoze files from a NTFS-formatted hard-drive with a Linux operating system is going to be counter-productive, dude...
Beyond that, I know very little, but the crew here will pitch in to get you out of the tall grass, forthwith.
Good to see you on the forum,
Oren.