Oh, nu-be, just looked at your post above. yeah, the in house recovery is very expensive. I looked into that as well as a company in San Diego. Any lab will be expensive and they use the same recovery programs that you can get. Like I said, check out the recovery software they sell at the site or use the one that comes with the FixIt CD. As for the /mbr stuff, been there done that, OnTrack was so much faster, easier, and didn't cause any more damage. The hard part will be getting the drive to spin. That's what the labs are for. If you just have something like a blown partition or the boot record was blown, then OnTrack software will do the job for you. Norton really can't handle the hard core jobs. The new PowerQuest Partition Magic is supposed to recover certain kinds of failures, but I haven't tested that portion of the program yet. Ok, best wishes for you. Like I said, I was successful in recovering from a blown NTFS partition with OnTrack and it handles just about any kind of failure as long as you can get your drive to spin.