Quote Originally Posted by Jacky
Don't forget that gpart will try to scan and guess your partitions but will not actually write out the new partition table. You have to actually instruct it to write. And after writing, you have to reboot to be able to see the rescued partitions.
Sorry, I am really lost with what you explained to me. I am really new to this and I am wondering maybe if you could explain in detail? It's just that I am afraid of doing anything to the hard disk and I need to understand exactly what I am going to be doing so I won't mess up the laptop any further. I am also afraid of rebooting the laptop because it took me 2 days and maybe 20-some times of attempt to completely boot from Knoppix CD. It kept hanging during boot and I finally got to the Knoppix desktop, so unless it is very necessary, I don't want to reboot...

Please help.