techlists at comcast.net spake the following on 6/13/2006 1:54 PM: > Unfortunately, I do *not* remember the original partition settings. > > I was hoping to find a live CD that could fix such disasters (i.e. systemrescueCD, or some such thing). I did find a Windows based program that's supposed to do the trick. The evaluation edition lets you see if it can see your lost data; you have to buy it ($79) to actually be able to recover the data. This was at: > > http://www.stellarinfo.com/linux-data-recovery.htm > > I'm sure there must be an open source trick somewhere that should work though. > > Paul Try testdisk. Here is a link to some info of which Live CD's have it. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!