Ant wrote
Rod Speed wrote
You can get some partitions not visible at the dos level
that are visible at the Win level because Win does its own
scan for drives and the partitions on them at boot time.
PM 8 is pretty dinosaury. Acronis True Image allows you to do
that sort of thing from what it calls a rescue CD which is a bootable
Linux CD which may well be able to see the partition fine.
He's still running Windows 98 SE with an old PC. It should be fine.
Not necessarily, it does its own scan for drives and so partitions,
so what it can see isnt necessarily what DOS sees.