I confused, If this suppose to be a reply to another thread, or a new one?
Knoppix does not touch you hard drive. Period.
The only thing that could have happened is that you tried to do an HD install. In that case, Knoppix will overwrite the MBR and install Lilo. Did you try to install to HD?
I confused, If this suppose to be a reply to another thread, or a new one?

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