gpart didn't work. I even tried to manually mount hda1 instead of clicking on it, but I still can't find it. I eventually tried a windows disk to try the automated system recovery, but it only shows my D partition, which is my system restore partition. I can see D:\miniNT and D:\i386 but no C drive. I also tried to fixmbr in windows, but it said one or more sectors are unrepairable. Does that mean my hard drive is completely shot?? If so does anyone know what a cause may be? My pc has been running great for as long as I have had it up until this. Its roughly 6 years old....