Situation: My neighbor gave me a 20 gig hd that came out of his WinXP machine. I would like to recover a few files (address book and email) for him before I reformat the drive. I was able to mount the drive (on a RH8.0 machine) and I can see the directory structure. I can access the /WINDOWS directory, but the directories /Program Files and /Documents and Setting are listed after a “ls –l” command but I cannot access them. Actually the file type is (?) instead of (d) and the size is zero as I recall. Any suggestions on getting to this data (if in still exists)? I can ask him for the usernames and passwords that he had been using. I can also bring my server (RH8.0) with the WinXP drive attached to the next meeting if that might help. It has been suggested to me to get a dos boot floppy from NTFS.com and use that. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks Rod Holcomb