Hi all,

My laptop - Acer Aspire One running Linux has just suffered a possible OS failure, it only gets as far as the 2nd boot-up splashscreen before freezing - with 3-4Gbs of essential files seemingly lost!!!

Anyway, on another forum a very helpful member has suggested installing Knoppix via a CD on an external drive, then re-accessing my HDD that way. So, I have now downloaded the EXE file at 282Kb from BitTorrent, so can I simply copy that one 282.3Kb file onto a CD using my Mum's computer, plug in the external CD drive and get the broken Linux to boot from a USB CDRom drive, even though no drivers are installed?

Thanks in advance!

Take care,

Jason