Originally Posted by Vroomparrot
Have you tried booting with a knoppix (or similar) cd? What type of partition does that then see?
No, not yet - and, until I have copied off those things I want to keep, I don't think it would be wise to do anything that might make the disk unusable.
But you are right in thinking that looking at the HDD from within Knoppix or some such might be informative.