MYSH,

You are in good hands with Harry Kuhman. He has tons more experience with Knoppix than I do. There are a few other things that might be pertinent, so I will add my three cents worth to the mix and get out of the way.

Do you mean the .torrent file (which I currently have on my desktop), or the directory for the ISO (which I have been putting on another drive altogether)?
The torrent file can go almost anywhere you want. The large iso file and the others that come along with it are what I was referring to. I would also suggest that if you have an external drive available, you could use that to save the files onto. Also, there may be some issues with FAT32 partitions larger than 32 Gig with Win 2K and XP. I have experienced issues mainly with XP, but remember having some restrictions in Win2K also. You mentioned having 15 Gig left, but it may be important to look at the total size of the Non NTFS partition. If it is an external drive, a faulty controller can be an issue causing a corrupted disc. It happened to me a couple of months back on a cheap firewire enclosure. It eventually rendered the disk unreadable. It only acted up with large files transferred from another machine. Bad external cables can be an issue also.

Out of curiosity, what is the checksum of your copy of the 4.0 ISO?
I am currently on the Gulf Coast and do not have the files with me on this machine. I was somewhat limited on what I could carry with me and am doing this almost by candlelight. I did not even bother to check the iso since the Torrent downloaded correctly. I would gladly run a check and send you the results if the files were here. The main issue with your checksums could be running a command line program in the first place. I am not familiar with the program you have used, but some "DOS" type programs seem to be limited to 2 Gig files. I see that you have tried MD5Summer and I seem to have had good results with it, so I would trust it to some extent.

I have also heard of people having issues with their ISP when downloading large files. For some reason they are not successful in downloading.

I will agree with Harry that it sounds like a hardware issue...memory, disc, cable, or controller related. I would verify that and go from there. It sounded somewhat like that from the beginning, but more so now since you are having problems in BOTH Torrent AND FTP . You mentioned spontaneous or random reboots and that also points to hardware. Power supplies are good suspects in that regard. I would add that to the list to check.