The Ram Drive is a combo DVD-CD writer and Ram Drive reader all in one it can read double sided DVD's. This is the drive i use to boot up the knoppix CD from.

The funy thing is if i use the same CD on other machines the disc works fine which can only mean there is an issue with my Laptop and i am guessing hardware. Though i did try the no hardware detect option aswell as the failsafe but the bugger just wont go any further after i press enter to load it.