I have a M55 toshiba satelitte laptop. I know nothing about computers. I know that when i started my computer up the other day i got a message after it went through the bios that said disk read error "ctrl,alt,delete to restart" after a million attempts of this nothing worked. I ran across knoppix and painfully have been trying to figure out how to even use it on my laptop. I finally did that. now i can get on knoppix and i dont see anywhere where my harddrive would be. I have plugged in an external drive hoping it would be as simple as drag and drop files. Of course its not going to be for me. My luck!!! So i finally figured out where the knoppix command prompt is and was able to type in some various things i have seen off this knoppix site. i have gotten cant open or permission denied. What i am looking for is someone to help me through a step by step process. I am a very honest person and someone that can walk me through this i will be willing to give them some money. Please help. I need these files and i know nothing about computers in this manner. Look at this as a challenge. Thanks and Please.