Hi; I helped a friend install Fedora Core 5 two weeks ago. Everything went fine. Then for some unexplained reason he deleted (not uninstalled) his WindowsXP on a separate hard disk. Now he has to get at some of his old XP files -- and I need help telling him how to do it. The situation is this: /dev/hda has FC5 installed; /dev/hdc had WindowsXP; he thinks it was vfat, not NTFS, but is not sure. parted /dev/hdc can see the disk, says it is type msdos. fdisk -l /dev/hdc can see the disk; marked as vfat mount -t vfat [or msdos] /mnt/windows /dev/hdc can't mount disk; error says file system unrecognized. He claims hdc was not re-formatted. He could be right. Is there a way to get at the files that are still on hdc and to rescue them? -- Regards Bill