No, that's fine, I'm glad you found the issue. I had one of those that took me like 8 hours of banging away trying everything I knew before I realized a cable was loose.
Knoppix is a great recovery tool though. Even if you don't switch entirely to linux, you might play around with it and learn a few things in case you ever need to recover files from a borked machine. Google "Knoppix windows recovery" and you'll find a lot of useful information.
Also, if you ever need to recover files from a failing hard disk, look into dd_rescue, foremost, testdisk, and photorec. Testdisk and Photorec are cross platform so you can run them on a Windows machine. They're handy for fixing thumb drives or recovering photos from camera memory cards...
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