You didn't mention what happens when you try to access the drive from Windows. Is Windows unable to see the drive? If the drive is showing signs of bad sectors a tool such as SpinRite ( www.grc.com) may be able to recover the data on those sectors and move it to a good sector. Costs you some money, but you don't have to learn how to use the tool, just run it and let it do it's work. ddrescue appears to attempt a similar operation, but instead of trying to recover data and remap bad sectors is just copies the data from one drive to another. Not a bad idea in case your attempts at data recovery make the situation worse. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100413/9aef90d9/attachment.htm