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MSUNAGers, I received many responses. They all are very much appreciated. They all ranged from local vendors to remote companies all over the country to software (some free, some cheap and some expensive) options to fix it myself. I decided to pass in the "do it yourself" option because I have no experience on this and also because I already have enough in my plate. I ended up going to Data Clinic. http://dataclinicusa.com/ They have their shop in Pennsylvania avenue. I haven't get my data back yet but the guy already gave me a list of the files in the disk so it seems like it is going to work. It will cost me $450. The disk was 1TB. I don't know it is reasonable or not but is way cheaper than any other option that I checked before sending it. They all seem to be soooo vague and will quote something like "in between $600 and $2000". The day of the problem I had the user over my shoulder in a panic state over his data (I told him to let me have that machine in the back up loop but he never came around to get it done, but that is another story) so we took the drive to Data Clinic in the same day. Next day I found that MSU IT Services offers data recovery and it seems to be much cheaper. If I knew of them before I would probably give it to them, but it was too late. oscar -- Oscar Castaņeda Remote Sensing & GIS Michigan State University