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My thanks to Jerry for his suggestions. Here's what I did: 1. I used Tom's Root/Boot floppy to get Linux running on the machine: http://www.toms.net/rb/ 2. I used gpart to guess and reset the partition table values: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ 3. I used Partition Magic 5.0 to repair various file-system length discrepancies, such as CHS vs LBA differences. Lessons Learned: 1. If you download the online version of Partition Magic and don't pay for the CD, you should write the install key on the CD-R you use to back up the online version. ;-J 2. The only way to find out if your recovery plan is valid is to trash your partition table. A. Norton Ghost, Partition Magic, and Ghod knows what other repair utilities choke and die when faced with a corrupt MBR. B. Having Ghost backups "safely" stored on both your wintel box and your Samba server does you no good if you don't have the correct driver for your wintel box's NIC available when you need it. Luckily, I didn't. Won't happen again! 3. Backups at one-month intervals don't cut it. From now on, weekly at a minimum. Suggestions for automating the process are welcome. FWIW. Bill Horne
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