And thank you to Kevin - this did
the trick perfectly. I've been able to recover everything successfully. Regards, Jason Kevin Hunter wrote: The tool is 'dd' and /dev. /dev/zero in this case. The summary of what you asked: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./zblah count=1 bs=256k 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 262144 bytes (262 kB) copied, 0.00130993 seconds, 200 MB/s $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./zblah count=1 bs=256000 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 256000 bytes (256 kB) copied, 0.00136915 seconds, 187 MB/s HTH, Kevin |