Cannot Mount Hard Disk

[Varkie]

I have a Dell C400 that normally boots and runs Windows 2000 SP4. the BIOS shows a 20G HD listed as the hard disk. It no longer boots to windows, and only presents a blank black screen instead of the normal W2K boot screen, I booted off the Knoppix 4 CD, and the HD shows up as HDA1. When I click on the drive to try and salvage the data, I receive the message "could not mount device, the reported error was: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, missing codepage or other error".

Being a Knoppix newbie, I'm not sure how to try and repair the disk from Linux, or if the drive itself is physically damaged or in need of a complete format. Any assistance would be appreciated.

[OErjan]

it looks like you either have bad partition table or damaged disk, no time to help you just now, other than point you to the search on this site, tons of info.
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/search.php