I'm about to play with a windows laptop that seems to have had a disk malfunction. I've used Knoppix to recover files from working disks but this case may be more serious. Is there a HOW-TO for NTFS file recovery in Knoppix of is there even another bootable distro that has recovery tools? Thanks -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Harrison for Congress in NY 13CD www.harrison06.com Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. A Proud signature since 2001