Just a quick and dumb question. Why not access the Windows drive with Windows? There are live disks that you can create, such as Bart PE or download the Windows PE from Microsoft. You can extract or create the disk image and burn it. It is a live Windows disk that works similarly to Knoppix and will basically read and write to a Windows partition without the risks of using Linux. You should also be able to put the drive in an external enclosure and hook it up to another Windows machine to recover the files. If the drive is corrupted, you have a beter chance of fixing it within Windows than using an unfamiliar OS. Just be sure to use the proper language version of Windows when you create or download the PE disks.

Here's an old link to some Slackware documentation for configuration in Danish:

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...s/Danish-HOWTO

Since Knoppix is based on Debian, there may be some useful resources here:

http://www.debian.org/international/Danish/

Here is a little on The PE disks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows...on_Environment