> > Anything else I might try to recover my extended > > partition? > > (I have the important stuff backed up if I need to start > > from scratch). > > Do you have grub on a floppy? Boot off that. > > florin I do have a grub boot floppy, but it is looking for my grub.conf on the 8th partition (part of what's hidden). I think the error comes up before I have had a chance to get to the grub shell. Is there a way I can change this boot disk to not look there? Mike