Hello--what a great forum!

After I installed and uninstalled IE 7 beta 2, my XP computer won't boot properly. Knoppix 3.8 has saved me in the sense that I can see all of my music, documents & videos--but I have not been able to access a USB thumb drive or the internet. I have a HP pavilion laptop, a little over a year old.

I can see the USB drive, it appears on my Knoppix desktop. But I cannot write to it, nor can I see the files it already contains.

No wireless networks appear when I run Knoppix, and plugging directly into my router or my office network doesn't produce the internet either.

I've tried the tutorials listed on this page: http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/, to no avail. I thought maybe it was a version issue.

Anyway--does anyone have a solution to this problem? I just bought an external USB drive so I can move all my files over before I reformat the computer.

Thank you!!