If you haven't fixed your problem, I can help you. Just send us what your able to see from DOS (with DOS FDISK) and/or from linux with cfdisk and with fdisk if you have it on your system (they do not present the same information as far as I remember).
Just a comment to what Bruce said: > I think DOS cares which partition is the extended one. I think it > wants it to be partition 4, but I'm not sure I remember that > correctly. I don't think that's true. Maybe "MS-DOS" FDISK cares about that but not MS-DOS. I mean, I have tried and used many different configurations of extended partition where the extended partition has been the 1 the 2 or whatever you want. Comment: in fact we should be more specific as what's the meaning of 1st, 2nd..... as you could write the information about the 2nd partition (not starting at the first cyilinder) in the 1st line of your partition table. IN any case I thing there is no such a limitation from the MS-DOS side. What MS-DOS FDISK cannot handle is to create more than one FAT _primary_ partitions. If one already exists then it allows you to create an extended one only. There is however an old good DOS application which is more flexible than MS FDISK and has been long used by the BSD people. Its name is PFDISK and can be found (both source and DOS binary) in for example NetBSD ftp under the tools tree (check out www.NetBSD.org). PFDISK would also allow you to modify (save first a copy of your PT from within PFDISK writing to a file in the DOS partition) the master partition table. This master partition table contains info of only 4 partitions and it is located at the "beginning" of your HD. I can help you with more details if you need. FYI, I also had several primary DOS partitions. MS-DOS sees them all. I've done it on my system with both versions 5.0 and 6.x of MS-DOS. If your unseable DOS partitions were primary (just check what cfdisk sees as DOS partitions: if they are on /dev/?daN with "?" = "s" or "h" and "N" > 4, then they were logical partitions in the extended partition; else if N<5 they were primary partitions and (forget FDISK) you could recover them with DOS PFDISK and the info you got from linux cfdisk/fdisk (I can help you if you need it). Hope this helps and that it is not too late. Lazaro -- Lazaro D. Salem E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RF-Rogaland Research Phone: +47 51 87 50 00 P.O.Box 2503, Ullandhaug Direct: +47 51 87 50 65 N-4004 Stavanger, NORWAY Fax: +47 51 87 52 00 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .