When my wifes HDD started to die, Knoppix was able to access all partitions when Mandrake 9.x, 10.x, could not, I salvaged data that allowed my marriage to continue (its allways my fault you know). I use Knoppix as my primary OS at home and at work, but my boss dosn't get it, treats it like a toy- this seems typical of older linux users - why?