Quote Originally Posted by Zeddicus
...I'm guessing there is not much to be done about it, but thought I would ask anyway.
Knoppix isn't the right tool if, as you attempted, it can't find the partition. You might try the Live Linux CD Helix, as it is made for that kind of thing and has some tools that might help. There are also some partition recovery programs that run under DOS that might help (I'll leave you and Google to work that out).