Hey guys, I have a crashed NTFS hard drive which I am trying to recover about 100gb of data from and Im having a little trouble. I am using Knoppix 3.8.1 and I cannot get Knoppix to recognize any drives if I unplug the drive which has Windows installed on it. The drives are like this: one has the windows partition on it, and then a blank Fat32 partition, that drive is inthe master position. Then, I have the drive which I need to recover the files from plugged into the slave spot. When I boot knoppix in this configuration, everything is recognized just fine. I have a 200gb FAT32 drive that I am trying to recover the files to and if I swap it with the bad drive, knoppix still boots fine. The problem comes when I unplug the windows drive and only plug in the bad drive and the 200gb one I want to backup to.

Problem #2 is I do have a spare IDE channel that I could plug another drive into so that all 3 drives could be connected at once but a CD-RW drive is plugged into one of the channels and I cant get any drives to be recognized if I plug the into the other channel. Now, I do have an external usb enclosure and I tried putting one of the drives in there but knoppix doesnt seem to recognize that when it boots either.

I am in a real predicament and I need this to be solved by the end of the weekend if possible. thanks in advance!