Hopefully this isn't going too off-topic here but; Once an NTFS/Windows drive has been mounted under Linux, is it possible to view the registry in any way as normally it is inaccessible when booted into the Windows OS or does it lie on an NTFS Alternate Data Stream that is inaccessible from within Linux and only Windows? -- Regards, James ;) Samuel Goldwyn - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_goldwyn.html