On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:43:41 pm Geoffrey wrote: > I would contact Dell. ?The bottom line is, if your drive dies, you won't > have access to the rescue partition. I ran partimage, found the device, mounted it, ran k3b and burned a DVD of the files, including the autoexec.bat and the 2 2Gb ghost image files. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800