Greetings,

After I posted, and rebooted Knoppix, it worked! The thing is, Dell has a three partitions, and the one that is the C: drive is hda2, actually. The other two contain Dell's hidden files, I guess.

The problem was, I did not mount the hda2 or hda3 (from the desktop shortcuts) before I fired up k3b, so they appeared empty. I am actually going to be demonstrating Knoppix this evening, at a DataCAD user group meeting. I has been a very powerful tool for recovering files from Windows computers that have a Trojan, or other boot problems: burn the files to CD/DVD and then copy them onto the new HD.

I'm also going to be showing the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (which is actually Linux with some WinXP tools "slipstreamed" in, I think), that can do similar things; plus UBCDfW can edit/reset Windows passwords -- and it can write/erase the Trojans from the NTFS hard drives! It is a bit more involved process -- you have to "build" the ISO, and you have to own a WinXP CD-ROM, too.

Thanks anyway!

Neil Blanchard