Quote Originally Posted by porkrind
next i would like to access my windows drive if thats possible. it actually seems necessary since thats where almost all my stuff is.

i'm thinking that Xwin is the thing ?
I know not of this Xwin thing you speak of. If you want to access you windows drive, just do it. There are several ways, the simplest way is that there should be one or more icons on your desktop for whatever partitions you have (names like hda1 for the first partition on the frist IDE drive). Click it. Access!

Writing to the paritions is a different matter. Since you say you have XP you most likely have NTFS partitions. Here's all you need to know about writing to NTFS partitions with Linux: Don't do it. You will corrupt your disk. This is a gift from Microsoft, a deliberate design and a result of keeping a lot of stuff about the NTFS partitions propritary. If you want to write to partitions in Knoppix you'll either need to resize partitions and make space for a FAT partition (use a Windows program like Partition Magic and defrag the partitions first), use an external drive or a USB flash drive, or slap in another hard drive. Wxin, whatever that is, DosBOX or even Wine are not going to let you write to an NTFS partition safely, if you try, have good baskups.