[sllug-members]: OSS tools to fix WinXP partition

[David J Iannucci]

> > I'd start a little lower and check if the BIOS is detecting the
> > harddrive.
> >
> > If it is just a bad MBR you might need to also (re)create the
> > partition table.  Hopefully it was something simple -- the whole
> > disk allocated to a single partition.  But depending on where he
> > got the machine there might also be at least one more partition
> > which is the "system diag/reinstall partition" the company (like
> > dell) puts on..

Thanks to all for the responses (and humor :-).  Actually, I *could* try
to convince them to switch, but you know how that can be...

> In the case of a lost partition I'm also partial to the
> partition recovery tools found in the util-linux package (there
> are two of them).

My util-linux (SUSE 10.1) has a ton of stuff in it.... do you by chance
remember the names of these tools?

Thanks,
Dave