OK, so is there some way of mounting the entire disk and searching for /var/backup to regenerate my mbr or am I totally hosed this time? -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@twofifty.com BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte