Help! During a long and complicated floppy installation (trouble due to DOS's fdisk -- not debian) I managed to initialise my old harddisk (containing all my files) instead of my new one. It was just an initialisation (no surface/low-level scan) which is why I'm still holding a glimmer of hope that someone can suggest a retrieval trick. Is there any way to access the files that were on that partition? thanks, Nick Cropper nic@minster.york.ac.uk