I do have a week old backup, so it's not tragic.

Placing disk as secondary and then copying as much as possible is a good idea. Wonder if I could connect to the lan from a boot diskette and pass the data?

Thnaks for your help.

Alex

>It is possible that a critical section of the hard disk is physically damaged, and can't be recovered.
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>I do hope you have a recent backup. If you don't, see what you can recover, booting from another machine (connecting your damaged disk as a secondary disk), and see if you can format it.
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>Perhaps you should leave this as a last ressort - possibly other members of the UT can come up with a safer solution.
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>Hilmar.