finally dwnldd & burnt a cd of Knoppix 5.0.1...
got this soft for trying to recover some data from my HP notebook's TOSHIBA (MK3013GAO) HD... (think it crashed earlier wasn't able to boot)
everythin went fine...de install of knoppix..de boot..
it jus smoothly went on till de knoppix desktop...
But in the desktop i WASN'T ABLE TO FIND MY HARDDISK..it had an icon called "Hard disk hda1"..but that wasn't my harddisk..((it even detected my harddisk at knoppix startup/boot)

Y ISN'T IT EVEN DETECTING MY HARDDISK...

and how do i DISABLE "dma" for my harddisk..?


PLZZ HELP..
my 30gb HD is at stake...

Thnx guys..v