First and foremost; THANK YOU to everyone who has helped me out on this!! I decided yesterday to try "Stellar Pheonix Linux" which is a MS-based utility someone here (thank you!) that can attempt data recovery of ext2 and ext3 partitions. It discovered a little over 5,000 files and then Win2k lost the drive entirely. At that, I decided it was time to send it to a data recovery house which I did today. Given the value of the data I decided that I had reached the limit of my (with your help!) expertise. If interested, I will let you know how much (if any) data is saved. Thank you all again! Madison -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml