Recovering NTFS partition (Newbie)

[Dave_Bechtel]

--Post the results of ' fdisk -l ' as root, so we can tell you exactly what to do. We're just guessing at what your HD looks like here until we can see this for ourselves...

Thanks - but when I try this I get an error message something like "Unable to open /dev/hda "

What am I missing?

David

Try it as root.

OK, thanks. I now seem to have the HDs (both of them).mounted. But now the drive with the corrupted NTFS partition gives an 'Access denied" message although I CAN access and manipulate the other one with the FAT32 partition.

How can I give myself permisson to access my own hard disk?

Fdisk listed more partitions on the NTFS disk than I thought were there.

I can't seem to navigate between partitiions although I can move between disks.

The icon on the desktop for the NTFS hard disk has a green flash on its bottom RH corner, but not the other one. What does this mean?

Thanks again for any pointers - and apologies for my current state of ignorance.

David