On 5/9/2013 1:41 PM, Rock wrote: > Since none of the files were deleted or written over, is > there a method on Linux that will simply recover the missing > file allocation directory structure instead of dumping a > hundred thousand files into a single directory? the FAT contains all the file linkage. if it was overwritten, then there's no file structure left at all on the disk. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast