Hi, Thank you all for answering my plea for help. Special thanks go to Oswald B. and David W.. I took your sagely advice and I've managed to retrieve all of my data. I was wrong in remembering that hda2 was a primary partition. It was a logical partition. Changing between primary and logical did not corrupt the data, to my relief. Any way, thanks again for all your help guys. I couldn't have done it without you. MB.