Is there anyway I can extract the SAM file from my pc using knoppix? Other than using a USB thumbdrive? Or if you know another bootable cd linux distro that allows you to remove the disk and burn a cd?
the SAM file is the file that the administrative passwords are stored in. You can copy it to a USB thumbdrive using a bootable linux distro with a program that can view the NTFS partition
In that case I would guess it's just a few kilobytes, so my suggestion should work fine, if you have webmail, the easiest thing is just bring up a browser on KNOPPIX and email it to yourself, otherwise use FTP or similar to upload it on the Web somewhere.