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Hi folks, I found a useful little open source application while trying to fix a PC today which had it's partitions deleted. The application is called TestDisk and can be found here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk The machine in question was running NT 4.0. The partions on the machine had been deleted and there was some important data on the drive. As usual I had an Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD to hand. I managed to boot the machine up, do a Google search and found the TestDisk program. When I ran the TestDisk program, it found the partitions on the drive and restored the partition table. Now the machine boots fine! From what I read on the TestDisk Wiki, it can detect and restore lots of different filesystems including FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, LVM, HFS & HFS+ etc. After looking a bit further, it seems it's also included with Knoppix. I really must make sure I carry a Knoppix CD with me everywhere! :-) So folks, if you ever need to restore a partition, it may be worth giving this a try. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html