hello all, my WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER crashed this morning...... and i refuse to reinstall OS, until i get some DATA off the Hard disk.......

i saw this and decided to give it a try, and i downloaded the ISO, burnt to a CDRW with Nero 6.... and verified the data


Knoppix starts when the computer starts, and the splash screen asking me press enter to load Linux... so i do.....

VERSION - KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN

heres what it says -

Welcome to the KNOPPIX Live GNU/LINUX on CD!

Running Linux Kernel 2.6.19.
Total Memory alvaliable: 969524KB, Memory Free: 957272KB
Scanning for USB/Firewire devices....done
allowing slow USB-devices some more time to register..... OK..
ENABLING DMA acceleration for :hdc [HP DVD WRITER 740b]
ENABLING DMA acceleration for: hdd [DVD RW DRU-820A]
Looking For CD in : /dev/hdc _

thats when it ends..... the prgram doesnt go any further,
it just freezes up there after a little while
i burnt the ISO to a CDRW @ 4x
the program just wont work, and i really need it to recover some files

can anyone please help me to get the program running to save the files???

thanks!


COMPUTER INFO -

CPU - Intel PENTIUM 4 2.8Ghz
OS - Window XP media center 2005
RAM - 1GB
Hard Drive Capacity - 200GB