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Joe if I could restore, I would. The partition table is so screwed, that I cannot boot to the Dell restore partition. I can get at the data (I.E. the ghost images), but that's it.

Randy, I have been using both a spare desktop with sata and the laptop (lt is about 2 years old). I read the thread, but this is not the issue. It was only after I ran a recovery program, that both machines stopped seeing the drive. I am beyond this anyway.

I really need to get ghost to see the Dell ghost image (consists of three 'spanned' images). The hacked version of ghost that Dell uses, is DOS based and since it writes to a FAT partition, it can only create 2 gig files - this is why I have a .gho file and two .ghs files.

Any more ideas or help? It's no longer a rush, but I'd like to get this done over the weekend.

Thanks!