Simon Forster wrote: > To state the bleeding obvious, don't decide that it'd be a good idea > to tidy up your HDs late at night after consuming quantities of red > wine - you may find that you accidentally erase the wrong HD. > > This handy safety tip bought to you by... > > Simon Forster (who has considerably more free disk space today than > he did yesterday) Don't feel bad. I've done that without the liberal application of alcohol. It was on a Windows PC though so no great loss. I just installed Linux. Haven't had any such issue with my Macs. Hope you didn't lose to many important items in the process. Sky