While in the process of using a thumb drive to move stuff between 
machines somehow the damn "disk manager" in the drive got confused, 
decided to run against the HDD, and ate my MBR and partition table. 
So... Partitions where, mostly, recovered, using testdisk. The problem 
being, this was a dual boot, so either grub is missing, or the partition 
which had its boot menu on it is gone. So, few problems:

The version of linux I had installed doesn't recognize itself on the 
drive, so can't recover.

I don't have a full copy of dos, anyplace, any more, so the tools to run 
fdisk /mbr, or the like, are not there.

Recovery console for XP insists I have an admin password (But I never 
used one on that old machine), so won't get me to a prompt, so I can do 
that.

Knoppix won't auto-mount the main drive, and attempting to dd the mbr, 
to wipe the grub loader (i.e. dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdc bs=446 
count=1), tells me, "This is a directory"...

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Still a lot of shit on the old 
machine I use every day, since its not transferred to the new machine 
yet. :(

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