> > 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