Hi thanks for the responses.

The interesting thing is that I really started looking at knoppix because I was shown the Knoppix STD version by a security professional and the ease and flexibility of use appealed.

While I was not able to get the latest version, 3.3 to work - the STD version, which is still on 3.2 - boots fine - so weird.

I do have issues on my drives - the master 20GB western digital is slowly dying and is never recognised by the system from a cold boot - I have to reset the machine at least once before it sees the drive

So the quick boot option is disabled as is power management

Bladeraptor