Help me save my parents' computer

Anyone out there with access to a Windows Millenium Edition box?

If so, could you tell me the results of running:

dir /a /x c:\

?

If you have disk-recovery tools handy, it would also be nice if you sent me a copy of what your root directory table looks like. If you really want to help out and have a knoppix CD handy, (or a linux boot disk with perl) and don't mind rebooting that box, I can give more involved instructions.

To make a long technical story short, my parents' hard drive developed a bad cluster - the one cluster holding their root directory, as it turns out. I've figured out how to reconstruct enough to get all the user data out, but any file formerly in the root directory is lost until I figure out which of these unallocated chains is which, and how to lay out the first few entries. If I get enough information, I think I might even be able to make the result bootable again.

Update: Never mind. It turns out it was a windows 98 machine after all, which I had one of nearby. And, thanks to the wonders of perl, the internet, hex editors and linux (and the improvements FAT32 makes over FAT16), the machine now boots again as though nothing were ever wrong. (Some directories are just renamed) I will now do the happy dance of computer accomplishment, and go face the doomednessof work, where disk failures are something I can do nothing about but whine at the sysadmin.