now you see it, now you don’t

Every now and then something happens that completely confuses the daylights out of me. I have two hard drives. Both can be found using Puppy Linux. I have mounted them, moved things around in them, deleted things within them. So far so good right? Right. Whenever I go to screw around with the partition table to erase one section of hard drive “a” it doesn’t show up as having anything on it.

I’ve tried two different distros so far with no luck. I’m going to boot into pcLinuxOS soon, which happens to be on the hard drive in question, to see if it will work that way.

So I’ve been fighting with this all day and it makes no sense to me. Anyone out there have any thoughts?