Ok so I finally got that figured out and disconnected the power and the ribbon to the hard drive.

I now get a message on the screen that says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device." No matter what I try I can't get past this message. I figured out how to use f2 to get into the Bios and set my dvd drive as the boot drive which is where the CD with Knoppix is, but still no luck.

I am curious, even if I could get the thing to boot, how could I recover my data if the hard drive is disconnected?

Any more suggestions will be deeply appreciated.

Thanks