linux-8ium:/home/s.nelson64 # fdisk -1 fdisk: invalid option -- 1 Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s) fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks fdisk -v Give fdisk version Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7 -u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units -b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors linux-8ium:/home/s.nelson64 # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 98.5 GB, 98522403840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11978 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe686f016 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 7 8517 68364607+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 8518 11371 22924755 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda4 11372 11977 4867695 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda5 8518 8648 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 8649 11371 21872466 83 Linux linux-8ium:/home/s.nelson64 # the files I will want to take off my windows partition are on /dev/sada2