Quote Originally Posted by Detonator
...how would i be able to do this using knoppix....
Many times Windows wil not boot or access a partition, but Knoppix may have no problem opening the partition and reading files from it. Of course, you could have managed to ruin the partition beyond what Knoppix will normally open (in which case there are still other tools).

Your first step would be to boot Knoppix on the system and see if it can read the disk and access the files. Knoppix should never be used to write to an NTFS partition, but it can read the partition just fine. If you find that you can open the partition with Knoppix then you should be able to recover what you need from the Windows partitions. You could send the files you recover across a network, store them on the Internet, put them on a USB flash device, or burn them to a CD or DVD.

If Knoppix can't access the partition there are Linux tools that can try to "guess" what partitions used to be there and repair the partition table, and even other Live CD's that have extensive file recovery tools. It woud help to know what happened to your system and to know if Knoppix can see the partitions before getting into lots of detail on this.