echo p|fdisk /dev/hdc the 40 Gig drive is the master - sorry /dev/hdc1 * 1 2545 20442681 0 Empty
I have made some attempts at messing around with the partition table - may have resulted in totally corrupting it. Strange though, MDK 9.1 still mounts partition - and I was able to backup data. Will followup with output from 9.1.