On 08/08/06, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I just removed a bunch of Personal stuff I should not have. > Is there anyway to undelete??? Jumping in late here, I recalled this snippet from NTK a few months back... >> TRACKING << sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering If you want to be truly loved, write a data recovery utility. We can't imagine there's a day when Christophe Grenier isn't swathed by offers of beers, steak dinners and marriage for TESTDISK and PHOTOREC, his two open source disk and file recovery utilities. The test TestDisk gives is sort of a final exam for your futzed partition block, quizzing your unreadable drive for tell-tale NTFS, HFS+, Ext3 or what-have-you data, and cribbing the lost partition data from what it finds. PHOTOREC gives up on such fripperies as a filing system and instead grubs directly on the drive for file data, spotting beginnings for popular file formats and having a stab at where their ends might be hanging. PHOTOREC, as the name suggests, started as a utility for clawing back pictures from bit-rotten flash cards, but can now sniff out files from Ogg Vorbis to Microsoft Powerpoint. Both utilities will run on Mac, DOs, Windows, Linux, and probably vegetable oil for that matter. Forget about them for now - when you need them, you'll find them. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download - though you'll waste an hour searching NTK for "olive oil" http://www.flickr.com/photos/manuelidades/113461346/ - voila! c'est un web deux point zero shot de screen Photorec might help if you know what you're after. It's often worth unmount a filesystem you've deleted stuff from and, if you have the space, just dd-ing the whole partition to another filesystem somewhere for later analysis. There's a good (if somewhat old) article on this from Sys Admin Mag: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1441/sam0111b/0111b.htm Will