hey gang,

I just bought myself a brand spanking new dell machine, love it.. but when I tried to boot knoppix 3.8.1 it just didnt work, so I tried it on failsafe, the mouse was super fast, and keyboard wasnt working at all.. so I tossed it away, and tried my 3.7 knoppix.. thats working just fine except for sound (not needed, so dont worry about it) and the fact that it cant detect my HD..

I want to do an HDD install onto this machine, but I havent gotten a chance to partition it yet since qtparted aint working.. it claims it cant find any devices..

WDC WD2500JD-75HBB0

thats the disk drive that comes up under windblows device manager.. any thoughts/ideas?