I installed dual boot knoppix 3.3 on my laptop. it worked fine for months. The other day boot loader wouldn't work and I got a bunch of 99's I recovered the mbr on the windows partition and have the knoppix cd. The problem is I can't reinstall grub with the cd wont write to hd0. All I can see from the boot cd is hda1an hda2. It is complicated by the fact that the files I want to retrieve on the knoppix partition have have locks on them when booting from the cd. I created a userrname and password on the cd boot to match the hdd install but cant switch to it. The only two files I want have locks on them no others. I created them with audacity. I didn't encrypt them. If I could have access them I could pull them off and back them up. I'm stuck till them

thanks

pboodi