Sounds like a good challenge for me Brian. Thank you, I will look into this. Anyway to reliably "whack" a partition table to make a practice drive before trying the real thing? If it helps, have a pretty good idea of the partition sizes, and only care about the data partition (sys recovery about lowest 5GB; sys 30GB; empty 2nd sys 30GB; remainder data). (It would have been so easy to dump the data partition.) If all you've done is whack the partition table, but didn't reformat or otherwise change the data in the filesystem, use 'testdisk' in linux to hunt down the partition boundaries and write out the new table. Once the new table is written, viola, the filesystems appear. I've been here before, and testdisk saved my butt :-) Brian _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110116/124d7203/attachment.htm