I am new to Knoppix and I am trying to use it to recover files from a harddrive that will not boot. This harddrive uses XP Pro with a NTFS partition. Knoppix sees the two harddrives I have on the computer but it will not mount the second one. The message I receive is: "I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified."

I was pumped because Knoppix at least recognized the drive. In XP the drive is recognized in BIOS and the Device Manager sees it as a harddrive, but I cannot assign it a drive letter or get to any files on it.

Any help or ideas on how to get my files back would be appreciated.


Thanks