I've Managed to over write my MBR and offcourse all my partions are gone (stupid me). i kept a backup of my MBR but silly me it's on the same disk that died. i have a rescue disk is there any way i can read from /dev/hda and go through the whole disk (RAW DATA) searching for "mbr backup file" and then read it. I am using EXT3 with slackware 8.1/RH 7.2 I am sorry my spelling is real bad Thank you -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze