My hard drive is not working. I took it in to our local repair shop for a recovery and they said the data was not retriveable using the program they use and that it needed to be sent to a "clean room". An online friend offered to help me work through Knoppix but I think our opposite schedules may prevent it for a few days and I am going nuts over this.

I am mostly clueless when it comes to tech issues but very good at following directions.

If you can help me through Knoppix and help me recover any part of my hard drive, I will pay you via paypal for ALL of your time. If I send it off for recovery, I am out hundreds of dollars so I figure I have nothing to lose.

I downloaded the knoppix onto my laptop. Burnt a CD. Installed it into my desktop. Pressed F3, typed Knoppix, Got to the Knoppix Desktop and when I click on Hard Disk Partition [hda1] I get the error:

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad uperblock on/dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems.

Where do i go from there or whatelse can I try?

Please PM me if you are willing to help.

Thank you!

Misty