I too am a newbie to Knoppix. I booted up from the CD and everything went great. I am impressed that this OS works so well from the CDRom. My main purpose in trying this program was to recover some files on a secondary hard drive that Windows XP cannot access due to a possibly bad boot sector. (at least that seems like it). What I am trying to do is access this hard drive and copy my data files to CD so that I can reformat that hard drive. My problem is, I cannot find my hard drives with Knoppix. I tried a search, but my C, D, & E drives do not show up. Only the Knoppix drive shows. Am I looking in the wrong place, or do I need to do something different at boot up. Everything else in Knoppix seems to work.