-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So I messed up though I haven't decided exactly how yet. The net solution I need is to find the start/end of an NTFS5 partition, then a ext2 partition. Do you folks know of any strings I can search for that indicate whether I've found the right place or not? Any automated tools would be nice since it's darn timeconsuming otherwise. Here's the scoop: Win2K was initially installed at CHS 244,0,0 to ?,?,?. I had a swap partition immediately following the NTFS partition with an ext2 partition following that. The swap partition was around 117MB ish and the ext2 partition was around 5/6GB ish. Here's where I probably screwed up. I installed OpenBSD to 0,0,1 to 243,0,63. I probably should have started it at 1,0,1 instead. Then I messed up further (though in retrospect, this probably didn't do anything except screw up OpenBSD since I had probably already messed up the partition table and bootleader) and ran a W98 'fdisk /mbr'. So. Any ideas on how to get this stuff back? Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8CnyafexLsowstzcRAmsMAKDyaTP1HALyKbK2jT0yiZJczyH3OgCgyleO CUebgzQ9O5NjvdBMrr6DnoM= =2kc6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----