On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:51:17 -0600 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > but linking it back > together sounds like a real chore A cinch with tools like testdisk unless it's been overwritten, in which case it would need to be worth >£1000 to recover it in a cleanroom. I always save copies of my documents as text too as text can be read and found as text on a disk, even fragments ;-).