Quote Originally Posted by kopfhorer
...(it’s possible that I could have re-formatted the Windows partition and forgotten about it...
For all of your typing you didn't really tell us some key things. Like What version of Windows was it and what type partition should there be out there, if you didn't delete it? Knoppix has much better sucess with FAT partitions than with NTFS partitions; which MS seems to be going to great lengths to keep Knoppix from writing safely. That said, you may want to look at the Linux utility (included in Knoppix) "gpart". It can find partitions on the disk and repair a bad partition table (note that this is far different than recovering deleted files or repairing a bad file structure within a partition).