<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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?<br><br>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).<br><br>(It would have been so easy to dump the data partition.)<br><br><font style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="1"><br></font><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail"><br>If all you've done is whack the partition table, but didn't reformat<br>or otherwise change the data in the filesystem, use 'testdisk' in<br>linux to hunt down the partition boundaries and
write out the new<br>table. Once the new table is written, viola, the filesystems appear.<br><br>I've been here before, and testdisk saved my butt :-)<br><br>Brian<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br><a ymailto="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" href="/mc/compose?to=tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br><a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>