Maxtor HDD

[maxtor]

Hello Dapper Dan and all,
I'm Scott from Cairns and I'm an alcoholic, but that's not a problem.
I have a Maxtor OneTouch4 Plus 500gb backup harddrive with this difficult CD software called 'Maxtor safety drill'. I know bugger all about Linux and nor does the it guy at Seagate (who now own Maxtor). I backed up my laptop HDD a few times and filled up the Maxtor drive. Unbeknown to me, when I tried to make the latest backup to the Maxtor HDD, the drive said "image created with errors". Well who wants a backed up image with errors right? So I thought I would wipe the laptop HDD, reinstall the HP factory restore software that are one of three partitions on the C drive. The C drive has two NTFS and one Fat32 partitions. I did restore the laptop to factory settings and updated all the necessary stuff. I reloaded the Maxtor Manager software from Seagate (called OT4) onto the laptop HDD and also checked the CD disc for errors. I tried to reload the (*BMR) image of my OS from the Maxtor HDD but no go. Seagate cant help me. The CD software is Linux, is loads ok till it gets past the 'IDE up and running message'. The 'little bouncing box' icon bounces for another 10 secs and then nothing.
I got my sons laptop (Toshiba portege m400) loaded the maxtor manager software, stuck in the Maxtor HDD and loaded an image I had made of his computer at Xmas. It worked fine, absolutely as it used to.
My question is good people, are there any basic commands I could load into the 'boot from' box when the linux starts.

Many thanks in advance and regards,

Scott
Cairns OZ

[maxtor]

Hello all,

I ran the linux program again and found that it is
KDE version 3.5.5 User: root
Hostname: Knoppix
System: Linux
Release: 2.6.21
Machine i686


Thanks

Scott