Boot problem

[joe]

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Michael Sammartano <volinaz at cox.net> wrote: (Tue, 01 Aug 08:32 -0700 ??)
> ... Drive failure. The partition table is not 
> capable of retaining the data writen to it. The drive needs to have 
> a recovery done on it to recover the data, further trials on the 
> drive will render the useful data useless. I do not understand the 
> constant cat and mouse game on this issue. ... If there is a physical 
> issue, it can not be fixed. 

Which drive do you think has failed?  And how can one confirm that? 

hda is an older 8-gig drive, but it is the one that is now booting
and it apparently has the MBR on it.

hdb is a fairly new 80-gig drive, and we can still read all the 
data on it by booting with a Knoppix live CD. 

Do you think I could install a Linux system on hda and then 
restore lilo in the MBR on it and thereby access both drives?