I ran Partition Magic on a family member's single boot XP machine, changing an empty logical partition to an active-primary partition, and it didn't take. Lost the partition table. I didn't back up their logical data NTFS partition externally, and that's what I'd like to try to recover. Thanks for any pointers. Right now I'm expecting to reformat the drive and restore an older data archive, resulting in the loss of some recent data. Bruce I am aware of custom utilities, but can't justify the cost with the perceived value of the data lost. for example: http://www.icare-recovery.com/partition-recovery.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110116/0e1d5098/attachment.htm