Quoting rod holcomb : > 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. Usernames and passwords wouldn't be honored at a file listing level by a non- Windows system. They might be necessary to actually open a file, but not to list or copy it. Clearly the filesystem is damaged. I would recommend using something like Norton from a Microsoft suite, as I don't believe the Linux-based tools for working with NTFS are sufficiently advanced to let you do good recovery. --------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through tarcanfel's horde/imp system