As a follow up, I was able to find a *free* program to attempt to recover my lost data. (I can't find the name of the program in a quick search, if anyone's interested I'll check my system at home tonight and post it). The software was able to see the lost partitions, but there was a huge amount of CRC errors in trying to read the disk. So I suspect there was a failure of the physical drive itself, more than just mere corruption of the partition table. This was a drive that fell on the floor once, but seemed ok when I installed Centos on it, so I left it in the system. Maybe it was already weak, and the erratic electricity killed it for good. I was able to recover quite a bit of lost data, but a lot of it appears to be gone forever. This is a good reminder on the importance of keeping backups of important stuff. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "William L. Maltby" <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "William L. Maltby" <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Restoring data from disk w/ messed up partition tables Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:09:35 +0000 Size: 2583 URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060615/45431ce9/attachment-0005.mht>