Hello!!! I'm a completely new user to the linux world, so I have no knowledge about the system. I have a laptop running Windows XP Home Edition but it now refuses to boot. Therefore I downloaded Linux Knoppix 3.4 to try and rescue some of my data. The CD boots with no problem but after detecting the hardware and showing something like a splash-screen it goes back and finishes saying

X-Window session terminated with erors.
Please check and retry '/etc/init.d/xsession start'.

Could someone guide me through some way of fixing this and being able to run Knoppix??
I am very thankful for your help.
Thank you much.