On 11/4/05 8:29 AM, stephen e. schwartz wrote: > help please. any clues or suggestions. of course I can go back to the > originators, but that just gets them sore at me because I use a mac. You could call the folks (ProSoft Engineering) that make DataRescue -- Mac software for retrieving files from crashed hard disks and other disks that won't mount -- and ask them if their software would work for this situation (the PC people not closing the session on their burn). If so, that would solve your problem in the future and you wouldn't have to go back to the people who aren't doing their job right. <grin> Downside is that resurrected files can be named weird stuff, etc. prosofteng.com peace, Linda