how to skip ide harddisk auto detection

[adaptit]

i have a bad ide hdd that has lot of bad clusters & want get my data back. when im booting my knoppix from CD it checks every blocks on my bad hdd, this takes lot of time. i need to skip this bad block checking part. how can i do it?

[UnderScore]

try booting with the cheatcode:
knoppix nofstab