>Well, software exists out there that is designed to scan you corrupt >harddrive for files, without knowing exactly where they start. Just look >for Data Recovery software. You'll obviously have to run it on a good >harddrive, and have the bad one set up as a secondary master...or >something like that. My Fujitsu MPG3204AH died like this recently and I managed to get the recovery software from Fujitsu support. Contact me off list if you would like more information. The software works on the MPF and MPG family of Fujitsu drives. The software only took a few seconds to run and my hard drive went from being non-recognisable by the BIOS to fully working again. I quickly copied all my data off the drive onto another drive and sent it off for a warranty claim. Cheers, Simon -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.