Quote Originally Posted by madscene
My windows xp pro machine died, wouldn't boot at all. ..... I'm wondering if there is a way around this, or does this mean that data is corrupted? It seems strange - my "program files' folder has the same problem, but I can access a bunch of other (unfortunately unimportant to me) data on the drive. Only one partition is having this problem - the other is fully accessible, even by a windows machine if I load it as a slave drive.

Anyone know if I can get to this data?

Thanks!
I don't think it means that your data is corrupted. XP, pro version only, has a "feature" that lets you protect data so that it can only be read by the logged in owner(item 3 in the link). This is a security issue, there might be some way to still access such secured files by Knoppix, but if there is then I expect that people would be complaining that Microsoft has yet another serious security flaw. So sorry, I can try to comfort you that I don't think your files have been corrupted, but I'm not sure how you can now read them. They are safely encrypted.