Raymond Norton wrote: > Glad it's no me, but I have a school I work with that had a server go > down. (no back ups). It was a windows 2000 server with mirrored drives. I don't know about windows mirrored drives, but others have recommended LiveCD's to mount the partition(s). Let me make a plug for a CD everyone should have handy -- RIP Recovery Is Possible. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ You should be able to boot this and see the partitions: # fdisk -l /dev/hda # fdisk -l /dev/hdb # fdisk -l /dev/hdc # fdisk -l /dev/hdd Let's say the NTFS volume is /dev/hdb3 then you should be able to mount it read-only with # mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/hdb3 /mnt I'm sure, however, that since Windows is so easy to administer that there is a way to pop in a good drive for the bad one and have it do the right thing(TM). HTH, --Tom