[r9etb]

I'll try Knoppix but I think since Partition Magic shows nothing but unallocated space, Knoppix won't see anything more. Won't see the 3 partitions the drive had.

"Unallocated space" means only that the file allocation table has been hosed. The actual data are still on the disk -- and in fact, most of your FAT is probably there as well.

[dennisw]

"Unallocated space" means only that the file allocation table has been hosed............

Are viruses etc. known to do this? Kill the file allocation table?