ok, so i've been searching around and have seen some posts very similar to this, but not quite addressing my problem. hope i'm not repeating, and if so *please* just point me in the right direction.

same old story, windows crashed, can't boot in safe mode or anything, so i burnt a knoppix disk for the purpose of data recovery.

i got into knoppix desktop without problems, and on the desktop i see hda1, hda2, and hda3. however, when i go into hda1 and hda3, i don't see any of my folders or files. when i try to open hda2 it tells me that the device couldn't be mounted, and that it couldn't determine the filesystem type and none was specified.

tried: mount -t reiserfs -o rw /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
and got a long error including wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/hda2

tried: mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
and it told me i must specify the filesystem

i am COMPLETELY in the dark with linux (this bootup with knoppix is literally the first time i've seen it and i'm learning by reading this forum) and i really appreciate any help that you could give me. i just want to recover some .word documents and family pics that mean a lot to me, and then i'll reinstall windows (or maybe ubuntu if i have a good experience with knoppix). do i have any chance of doing this? thanks again, matt