I have no experience at all with Knoppix. It was suggested to use this to
try to get to a harddrive that Windows won't boot up.

I have run Spinrite on it with no success.. Some how my partition is no longer named so I'm not
sure if this is going to work. FIXMBR and FIXBOOT don't work..

Here's what I tried:

knoppix vga=0
knoppix acpi=off pnpbios=off noapic noapm
knoppix vga=0 debug -b 3
failsafe debug -b 3

All of them hang in the same exact place:

Found primary Knoppix compressed image at /cdrom/Knoppix/Knoppix

I downloaded version 5.0.1

Are there any other options I can try?

My laptop is a compaq Presario M2010US

TIA