Quote Originally Posted by OpenIntro
Also, if I run.... sudo gpart /dev/hdc (which I tried since it was the C drive?)....
No, it's not the C drive. It's not even the C drive under XP. it's both C and D Partitions under XP, but that's not the same as saying which drive it is (I have D F and G partitions on my second drive, for example) It's the first drive, and Linux refers to the first drive on a normal IDE interface as hda. It refers to the partitions on hda as hda1, hda2, hda5 (the first logical partition in an extended partition) and so on. So what you want to be scanning with gpart is hda. If you can't run gpart against it you might want to consider the chance that the drive just isn't working. But I would test that theory with some software other than Knoppix before I sent the hard drive to someone and told them to overcharge me to extract data from it. You might even want to run gpart on another computer to see how it normally works.