Quote Originally Posted by rusty
gpart -w will write the guessed partition table, not the entire partition to a device. I'm not sure if your partition table is compromised as it seems that knoppix sees the partition?

Have you tried fsck'ing the drive? man fsck, at a command line to see options including the -n option which will not repair anything.

Another tool I hope you won't have to use is lde (linux disk editor), theres a man page for it too, and a web page : http://lde.sourceforge.net/

HTH
Hi,

Well, if my partition table is not compromised, why doesn't the HDD show up neither in WXP or cannot be open with Knoppix?

I can try fsck but I'd apprecciate if you write me the exact command because I cannot succeed

Thank you
Alex