Installing Knoppix

I recently installed a new hard drive to replace the primary master which
crashed. I downloaded Knoppix so that I can attempt to recover data from
the old drive.
I am running windows xp.
I am unable to open Knoppix from windows. I don't know how to burn knoppix
to a cd and install it. Idid copy the downloaded file to a cd, but am
unable to open it.
Any help will be appreciated.

 

if you downloaded and iso
your cd burning software should have the option to create a cd from the iso
image

 

That's right.

Use Nero or Roxio (burn from image options) to create a CD from the
downloaded ISO image.

Nope that won't work.

Knoppix is a self-booting and configuring Linux system, no installation
required. Runs totally from the CD, but will access your Windows
partitions.

 

CD burning software will be required.

Instructions are at below link;
See heading 'ISO Burning Instructions' and select your burner-software.

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

 

Read the FAQ.

ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX-FAQ-EN.txt

 

If your filesystem is not NTFS, all you need is a win98 or dos boot floppy
to access the old hard drive.

 

knoppix installation

Nope, I've tried to open Knoppix download in Windows 2000, doesn't work. Quite a few free CD burners available on web. Consider installing a dual-boot system so you can (nearly) always get your data off. To get out of the fix install an operating system with the same file system (FAT16, 32 or Ntfs) onto a fresh HD and set your non-bootable HD to slave. This may be easier than using Knoppix as you are familiar with Windows methods of transferring files. Searching Microsoft site for 'Knoppix' interestingly found no matches .....surprise,surprise.