jsstevenson wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion... > > Unfortunately you seem to be right - the drive is still not accessible. I might have to install windows to deal with this one, which will be a bit of a pain! > > Thanks again. > Jamie. Did you tried native tools for this ? I have used successfully photorec (which does not only recover pictures, but a lot more like programs, music, ...) on an NTFS drive so crashed that even tools under windows could not handle. There is a tutorial here : http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/recovering-windows-files-with-a-ubuntu-cd-iii-deleted-files/