Glad to hear that you are making progress. That things changed after disabling floppy booting from the sequence is very very strange and something that I had never seen reported before, but good to know.

One thing that I want to correct. That the disc booted on another system does not tell you that there are no disc issues. It certainly doesn't look like there are any disc issues in this case, but high speed burns are well known to work (or at least seem to work) on some systems but not others. So the fact that a disc works in one system is absolutely not proof that there is no disc problem.

As to your last question, I think you would be best off starting a new thread for it. I'm not really clear what the issue is either. If you are trying to move files off your hard drive, you normally should be able to do that.. But you already mentioned that your hard drive is corrupt, so it might not be readable. While Knoppix can often recover files when Windows will not boot or read the disk, windows is quite capable of destroying it's disk structure so badly that Knoppix can't read the data. If you are trying to write to the hard disk, I would strongly advise against that. Some people think that Knoppix can safely write ti NTFS partitions. I'm not one of those. There were many previous versions of Knoppix that some people claimed could write to NTFS too, but they all ended up corrupting the disk in one way or another. The data on my NTFS partitions is too important to me to risk finding out that the trend continues. And there would seem to no point at all in trying to write to a disk that you say is corrupted.

The references to browsers confused me too. Start a new thread, tell us in more detail what you want to do and someone will likely try to help you. I just hope it's not someone who thinks it's safe to write to NTFS partitions now. You may also want to look at the wiki (documentation link near the top of this page). I don't remember the exact title, but there is a section about data recovery with Knoppix.