Mariamus! How'd it go? Could you recover your stuff? Generally Partition magic is a fantastic package, I live by it. Just recently reformatted 2 partitions to NTFS on-the-fly for video editing work. But it can be confusing to keep track of all the things it does.... :] Fish (2 PC's, total of 9 harddisks (yes, 9 physical disks, not partitions) and multiple copies of everything, virus protection, firewalls, DVD backups, old tape backups, the works)