cant get to this post through Knoppix as it's on a computer in another room with not Internet. I will try and write down what it says but I think it has trashed the HDD. I tried looking at it on this box with a firewire bay but nothing seems to be able to sort it. Ive tried the partition software on the Knoppix CD but it says it can't delete the partitions on the drive as there is an error.