Alex Walker wrote: >hdd: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive > Gotta love 60GXP's. Btw, no, I don't know how to get your data back, but with those IBM drives its always worth checking on this page: http://www.hgst.com/warranty/jsp/arma31.jsp to see whether your warranty is still valid as they are quite efficient to swap it out if it is. Hussein Jodiyawalla -- mightymouse.net