Quote Originally Posted by ajonline
When I look at my partions in windows recovery console it says.....
I know not of this windows recovery console of which you speak. On my Knoppix desktop I see icons for each partition. In my case these are labeled Hard Drive Partition [hda1], Hard Drive Partition [hda3], Hard Drive Partition [hda5], and so on. The a or s in the 3rd position is just an indication of a different interface, if you have an incn labeled Hard Drive Partition [hds1] then it should open in read only mode for you just by double clicking on it.