Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Well, I already have PM and I'm reluctant to go out to buy another piece of software with no particular assurance that it will be of any help in solving my quite specific problem. I suppose that at least for diagnostic purposes it would be helpful to know the data structures on a hard drive that specify how it's partitioned, given that Linux thinks there's nothing wrong with it and both PM and Ranish think it's corrupted. Ranesh at least can read it; PM rejects it. PM has worked well for me except in cases where it can't interpret the partition information at all.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ has a lot of good tools. The one I use isn't free and doesn't run from Linux though: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm URL below might be helpful too. -- "I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." President Thomas Jefferson Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html