Thanks to all who replied.
Gave up wasting time and re-installed Fedora Core 1.
Funny that after doing fsck -f /dev/hda4 and answering yes to all questions, the partition appeared to be repaired.
I could access it via Knoppix 3.3 (and thus burned all my required files to DVD with K3b), but I couldn't boot Fedora, no matter what. Even the Fedora install CD 1 found the "existing installation" on hda4, but when I tried updating, it said that the partition appeared not to be formatted.
Different utilities, under both linux and Win XP gave different results and error messages.
Think that in future I'll keep XP and Linux on different drives (until I get rid of XP).
Thanks again
Bill
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