Hey everybody,

I'm new here, and I'm kind of an ignorant with this stuff,so I guess this shouldn't be a problem to you.
The thing is, I was happily using Win XP, but some spyware managed to screw everything up, including all the antivirus and antispyware software I had.

I wanted to try and recover my files with Knoppix, but the hda1, hda2 etc stuff, that used to show up on my desktop, doesn't anymore.
However, when I access media:/, I can see CD-ROM, Floppy and an unmounted "Hard Disk (noauto,users,exec)".
When I click Mount, an error window comes up saying "mount: only root can mount noauto,users,exec on 0. Please check that the disk is entered correctly."

I know a lot of people have already come here with similar issues, and I did try a lot of commands I saw here, but the best I got was creating an empty "hda1" folder in my desktop, with some empty subfolders in it, which was no use.

Don't know what kind of HD I have. My Knoppix version is 4.0.
I was wondering if my HD has been actually damaged.
I would very much appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance.