On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:04 -0400, "John Ferrell" wrote: > BTW, I seem to have lost access to my Hard drive that has my LTSpice=20 > collection on it... > any hints on data recovery are appreciated. Drive has been moved to=20 > another computer without success... > It is a 500G IDE Seagate. Is it NTFS or FAT32 or something else?=20 Does it show up in the BIOS?=20 Does it become "ready"?=20 Does it click? If it becomes ready, I would "dd" the whole thing to another, bigger drive, so you get what you can quickly. If you don't run linux normally you can use a bootable CD. Bob --=20 http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .